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Everyday Life in History
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Order of Contents
In General
Whole of History
Mesopotamia
Babylon & Assyria
Greece
Romans
Britain
Southern Europe
Middle East
India
China
Japan
Central America
South America
Africa
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In General
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Article
Books
Food & Cooking
Shoes
Children
Music
Cities & Public Spaces
Religion
Soldiers
War
Earthquakes
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Article
Harris, George – “Domestic Everyday Life, Manners & Customs in the Ancient World” in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 4 (1876), pp. 364-415
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Books
Yaggy & Haines – Museum of Antiquity: a Description of Ancient Life: the Employments, Amusements, Customs & Habits, the Cities, Palaces, Monuments & Tombs, the Literature & Fine Arts of 3,000 Years ago (Law, King & Law Publishing House, 1884) 970 pp. ToC
National Geographic – Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome (Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 1951) 370 pp. ToC
Bouchard, Constance B. – Life & Society in the West: Antiquity & the Middle Ages (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988) 375 pp. ToC
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Food & Cooking
Books
Brothwell, Don & Patricia – Food in Antiquity: a Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples (Praeger, 1969) 240 pp. ToC
Kaufman, Cathy – Cooking in Ancient Civilizations in Daily Life through History (Greenwood, 2006) 275 pp. ToC
This covers Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Wilkins & Hill – Food in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2006) 310 pp. ToC
eds. Valamoti, Dimoula & Ntinou – Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe & Beyond (Sidestone Press, 2022) 520 pp.
Gremillion, Kristen – Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011) 185 pp. ToC
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Shoes & Boots
Book
Hall, J. Sparkes – The Book of the Feet: a History of Boots & Shoes: with illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks & Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe, during the Middle Ages down to the present period… (William H. Graham, 1847) 220 pp. ToC
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Children
Book
Strange, W.A. – Children in the Early Church: Children in the Ancient World, the New Testament & the Early Church (Wipf & Stock, 2004)
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Music
Sendrey, Alfred – Music in the Social & Religious Life of Antiquity (Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1974) 565 pp. ToC
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Cities & Public Spaces
eds. Chandrasekaran & Kouremenos – Continuity & Destruction in the Greek East: the Transformation of Monumental Space from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity (British Archaeological Reports, 2015) 100 pp.
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Religion
Kiernan, Philip – Roman Cult Images: the Lives & Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020) 360 pp.
Dijkstra & Raschle – Religious Violence in the Ancient World: from Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020) 430 pp.
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Soldiers
Gabriel, Richard – The Ancient World in Soldiers’ Lives through History (Greenwood Press)
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War
eds. Lancu & Meo – Textiles & War in Europe & the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Archaeopress Archaeology, 2025) 225 pp. ToC
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Earthquakes
Book
eds. Compatangelo-Soussignan, Diosono & Le Blay – Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean & Beyond between Antiquity & the Middle Ages: Proceedings of Cascia (25-26 October, 2019) & Le Mans (2-3 June, 2021) Conferences (Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022) 425 pp. ToC
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Whole of History
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Mesopotamia
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Books
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Short & Friendly
Mehta-Jones, Shilpa – Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Crabtree Publishing, 2005) 33 pp. ToC
Hunter, Nick – Daily Life in Ancient Sumer (Raintree, 2016) 46 pp. ToC
Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
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Books
1900’s
National Geographic – Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome (Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 1951) 370 pp. ToC
Gordon, Edmund – Sumerian Proverbs: Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia in Museum Monographs (The University Museum, 1959) 660 pp.
Nemet-Nejat, Karen Rhea – Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Greenwood Press)
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Babylon & Assyria
Order of
Books
Babylon
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Books
1900’s
Contenau, Georges – Everyday Life in Babylon & Assyria (London: Edward Arnold, 1954) 380 pp.
Saggs, H.W.F. – Everyday Life in Babylon & Assyria (Batsford, 1967) 205 pp. ToC
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Babylon
Article
1900’s
Dandamaev, Aaboe & Reiner – ch. 28, ‘The Culture of Babylonia’ in Cambridge Ancient History (NY: 1991), vol. 3, pp. 252-321
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Ancient Greeks
Order of
Homer
Friendly
Books
Social History
Dictionary
Mythology
Family, Sex, Children
Cooking
Arts, Music
Athens
Crete
Hellenistic World
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Homer, 750 BC to 650 BC
Books
1800’s
Mahaffy, J.P. – Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander [290 BC] (London: Macmillan, 1888) 460 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell – Everyday Life in Homeric Greece (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936) 210 pp. ToC
Mireauz, Emile – Daily Life in the Time of Homer (Macmillan, 1959) 260 pp. ToC
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Friendly
1900’s
Reuben & Schwartz – How People Lived in Ancient Greece & Rome (Benefic Press, 1967) 95 pp. ToC
Nichols, Roger & Sarah – Aspects of Greek Life: Greek Everyday Life (Longman, 1978) 47 pp. ToC
Miquel, Pierre – Life in Ancient Greece in Silver Burdett Picture Histories (Burdett, 1985) 65 pp.
Pearson, Anne – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece in Clues to the Past (Watts, 1993) 37 pp.
Ross, Stewart – Ancient Greece: Daily Life (Peter Bedrick Books, 1999) 50 pp. ToC
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2000’s
Hull, Robet – Everyday Life: the World of Ancient Greece (Watts, 2000) 33 pp. ToC
Senker, Cath – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece in Uncovering History (Smart Apple Media, 2004) 50 pp. ToC
Peppas, Lynn – Life in Ancient Greece (Crabtree Publishing, 2005) 34 pp. ToC
Hynson, Colin – How People Lived in Ancient Greece (Power Kids Press, 2009) 30 pp. ToC
Levine, Michelle – The Greeks: Life in Ancient Greece (Lerner Press, 2010) 50 pp. ToC
Bensinger, Henry – Ancient Greek Daily Life (Rosen Publishing Group, 2014) 27 pp.
Nardo, Don – Daily Life in Ancient Greece (Raintree, 2015) 50 pp. ToC
Simons, Lisa M. Bolt – Daily Life in Ancient Greece (Capstone Global Library, 2017) 23 pp.
Life in Ancient Greece in Living History
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Books
1800’s
Guhl & Koner – The Life of the Greeks & Romans described from Antique Monuments tr. F. Hueffer (NY: Appleton, 1876) 630 pp. ToC
Mahaffy, J.P. – Social Life in Greece from Homer [750 to 650 BC] to Menander [290 BC] (London: Macmillan, 1888) 460 pp. ToC
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1900’s
McClees, Helen – The Daily Life of the Greeks & Romans, as Illustrated in the Classical Collections (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925) 145 pp. ToC
Robinson, C.E. – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece (Greenwood Press, 1933) 163 pp. ToC
Flaceliere, Robert – Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles [c. 495 – 429 BC] (Macmillan, 1965) 345 pp. ToC
Guhl, E. & W. Koner – Everyday Life of the Greeks & Romans (London: Studio Editions, 1989) 625 pp. ToC
Garland, Robert – Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (Greenwood Press, 1998) 260 pp. ToC
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2000’s
Matz, David – Voices of Ancient Greece & Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Greenwood, 2012) 300 pp. ToC
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Social History
Grant, Michael – Greeks & Romans: a Social History (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992) 200 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
Forsdyke, Sara – Slaves Tell Tales & other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece (Princeton Univ. Press, 2012) 280 pp.
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Dictionary
Rich, Anthony – A Dictionary of Roman & Greek Antiquities, with nearly 2000 engravings on wood from ancient originals, illustrative of the industrial arts and social life in the Greeks and Romans (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1890) 755 pp. no ToC
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Special Topics
Mythology
Short & Friendly
2000’s
MacDonald, Fiona – Gods & Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (Peter Bedrick Books, 2002) 40 pp. ToC
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Families
Short & Friendly
Millard, Anne – Family Life in Ancient Greece (Wayland, 1995) 34 pp. ToC
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Sex
Licht, Hans – Sexual Life in Ancient Greece tr. J.H. Freese (London: Routledge & Sons, 1935) 630 pp. ToC
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Children
Brayton, Margaret M. – Aspects of Child Life in Early [Greek] Classical Literature M.A. thesis (Univ. of Illinois, 1921) 175 pp. ToC
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Cooking
Short & Friendly
Gifford, Clive – Food & Cooking in Ancient Greece (Wayland, 2009) 35 pp. ToC
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Arts & Music
Article
Sendrey, Alfred – ch. 10, “Greece” ToC in Music in the Social & Religious Life of Antiquity (Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1974), pp. 282-369
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Book
eds. Titchener & Moorton, Jr. – The Eye Expanded: Life & the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Univ. of California Press, 1999) 310 pp.
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City of Athens
Friendly
Kotapish, Dawn – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Athens (Runestone Press, 2001) 65 pp. ToC
Shuter, Jane – Life in Ancient Athens in Picture the Past (2006) 33 pp. ToC
Nardo, Don – Life in Ancient Athens (Lucent Books, 2000) 110 pp. ToC
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Books
Tucker, Thomas G. – Life in Ancient Athens (Macmillan, 1906) 340 pp. ToC
Gardner, Ernest A. – Ancient Athens (Macmillan, 1907) 635 pp. ToC
Webster, T.B.L. – Everyday Life in Classical Athens [500 BC – 323 BC] (Batsford, 1969) 190 pp. ToC
Deighton, Hilary – A Day in the Life of Ancient Athens (Bristol Classical Press, 1995) 85 pp.
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Social History
Hardwick, Lorna – Athenian Social History (Open University, 1979) 80 pp. ToC
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Source Anthology
eds. Ferguson & Chisholm – Political & Social Life in the Great Age of Athens [478 BC to 336 BC]: a Source Book (Ward Lock Educational, 1978) 275 pp. ToC
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Crete
Books
Willetts, R.F.
Ancient Crete: a Social History from Early Times until the Roman Occupation (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965) 205 pp. ToC
Everyday Life in Ancient Crete (Batsford, 1969) 190 pp. ToC
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Hellenistic World
Evans, James Allan – Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age from Alexander to Cleopatra (Greenwood Press, 2008) 250 pp. ToC
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Ancient Romans
Order of
Encyclopedia
Friendly
Books
Social History
Popular Culture
Dictionary
Historical Fiction
Rome
Pompeii
Etruscans
Roman Frontier
Religion
Women
Sex
Cooking
Arts, Music
Military
Charioteer
Economics
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Encyclopedia
2000’s
Ermatinger, James W. – The World of Ancient Rome: a Daily Life Encyclopedia, vol. 1, 2 (Greenwood, 2015)
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Friendly
1900’s
Reuben & Schwartz – How People Lived in Ancient Greece & Rome (Benefic Press, 1967) 95 pp. ToC
Miquel, Pierre – Life in Ancient Rome in Silver Burdett Picture Histories (Burdett, 1984) 60 pp.
Kaufman, William – Life in Ancient Rome (Dover, 1997) 45 pp.
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2000’s
Grant, Neil – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome in Uncovering History (Smart Apple Media, 2003) 44 pp. ToC
Adams, Simon – Life in Ancient Rome (Kingfisher, 2005) 62 pp. ToC
Mehta-Jones, Shilpa – Life in Ancient Rome (Crabtree, 2005) 35 pp.
Williams, Brenda – Staying Alive in Ancient Rome (Raintree, 2008) 34 pp.
Bingham, Jane – How People Lived in Ancient Rome (Power Kids Press, 2009) 33 pp. ToC
Life during the Roman Empire
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Books
1800’s
Guhl & Koner – The Life of the Greeks & Romans described from Antique Monuments tr. F. Hueffer (NY: Appleton, 1876) 630 pp. ToC
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1900’s
McClees, Helen – The Daily Life of the Greeks & Romans, as Illustrated in the Classical Collections (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925) 145 pp. ToC
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman Times (Transworld Publishers, 1972) 125 pp.
Balsdon & Ferguson – Social Life in the Early Empire (Open University, 1974) 65 pp. ToC
Casson, Lionel – The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Rome [in the 2nd Century AD] (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975) 125 pp. ToC
Liversidge, Joan – Everyday Life in the Roman Empire (Batsford, 1976) 235 pp. ToC
Fleming, Stuart J. – Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997) 75 pp. ToC
This book draws observations on everyday life from a study of Roman pottery, statues, etc.
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2000’s
McGowen, Stacey – Roman Daily Life (University Readers, 2012) 150 pp. ToC
Matz, David
Daily Life of the Ancient Romans (Greenwood Press)
Voices of Ancient Greece & Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Greenwood, 2012) 300 pp. ToC
Chrystal, Paul – How to be a Roman: a Day in the Life of a Roman Family (Stroud: Amberlsy, 2017) 94 pp. ToC
Chrystal, Paul – When in Rome: Social Life in Ancient Rome [753 BC to 550 AD] (Fonthill, 2017) 300 pp. ToC
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Social History
Alföldy, Géza – The Social History of Rome (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
Grant, Michael – Greeks & Romans: a Social History (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992) 200 pp. ToC
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Culture & Popular Culture
Article
Sikdar, Sambita – “Roman Culture” This is a detailed note on Themes in World History (NCERT, 2025), “An Empire Across Three Continents”
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Book
Toner, Jerry – Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (Polity, 2009) 260 pp. ToC
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Dictionary
Rich, Anthony – A Dictionary of Roman & Greek Antiquities, with nearly 2000 engravings on wood from ancient originals, illustrative of the industrial arts and social life in the Greeks and Romans (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1890) 755 pp. no ToC
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Historical Fiction
Army
Whitehead, A.C. – The Standard Bearer: a Story of Army Life in the Time of Caesar [100 BC to 44 BC] (Biblo & Tannen, 1967) 300 pp. ToC
City of Rome
Short & Friendly
Millard, Anne – Ancient Rome: Everyday Life in Roman Times (1981) 63 pp. ToC
Nardo, Don – Daily Life in Ancient Rome (Raintree, 2015) 48 pp. ToC
Barghusen, Joan – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome (Runestone Press, 1999) 60 pp.
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Books
Treble, H.A. & K.M. King – Everyday Life in Rome in the Time of Caesar & Cicero (Clarendon Press, 1939) 160 pp. ToC
Carcopino, Jerome – Daily Life in Ancient Rome: the People & the City at the Height of the Empire (Yale Univ. Press, 1940) 355 pp. ToC
Cowell, F.R. – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome (London: Batsford, 1961) 220 pp. ToC
Casson, Lionel – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998) 180 pp. ToC
Dupont, Florence – Daily Life in Ancient Rome (Blackwell, 1993) 315 pp. ToC
Aldrete, Gregory S. – The Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (Greenwood Press)
Angela, Alberto – A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome tr. Gregory Conti (Europa, 2009) 380 pp. ToC
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City of Pompeii
Short & Friendly
Tanaka, Shelley – The Buried City of Pompeii: What it was like when Vesuvius Exploded (Scholastic, 2001) 40 pp. no ToC
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Books
De Albentiis, Emidio – Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009) 195 pp.
Tuck, Steven – Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City: Course Guidbook in The Great Courses (The Teaching Company, 2010) 110 pp.
Aldrete, Gregory S. – The Roman City: Rome, Pompeii & Ostia (Greenwood Press)
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Etruscans
Heurgon, Jacques – Daily Life of the Etruscans (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961) 340 pp. ToC
MacNamara, Ellen – Everyday Life of the Etruscans (Batsford, 1973) 220 pp. ToC
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Roman Frontier
Book
Southern, Patricia – Hadrian’s Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Fontier (Amberley: 2016) 460 pp. ToC
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Britain
Historical Fiction
Allason-Jones Lindsay – Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain [AD 122-138] (Michael O’Mara Books, 2000) 235 pp. ToC
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Families
Chrisp, Peter – Family Life in Roman Britain (Wayland, 1994) 34 pp. ToC
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Special Topics
Religion
Turcan, Robert – The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times tr. Antonia Nevill (Routledge, 2000) 200 pp. ToC
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Women
Allason-Jones Lindsay – Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain [AD 122-138] (Michael O’Mara Books, 2000) 235 pp. ToC
This is historical fiction.
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Sex
Keifer, Otto – Sexual Life in Ancient Rome (Dorset Press, 1993) 395 pp. ToC
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Cooking
Short & Friendly
Gifford, Clive – Food & Cooking in Ancient Rome (Power Kids Press, 2010) 35 pp. ToC
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Arts, Music
eds. Titchener & Moorton, Jr. – The Eye Expanded: Life & the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Univ. of California Press, 1999) 310 pp.
Sendrey, Alfred – ch. 11, “Rome” ToC in Music in the Social & Religious Life of Antiquity (Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1974), pp. 369-439
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Military
Short & Friendly
Wood, Richard – The Daily Life of a Roman Centurion (Wayland, 2008) 30 pp.
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Charioteer
Anderson, Scoular – A Day in the Life of a Roman Charioteer (Pearson Education, 2001) 24 pp. ToC
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Economics
eds. Aubert & Sirks – Speculum Iuris: Roman Law as a Reflection of Social & Economic Life in Antiquity (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2002) 210 pp. ToC
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Ancient Britain
Order of
Books
Celts
Roman Britain
Scotland
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Books
1800’s
Windle, Bertram – Life in Early Britain, being an Account of the Early Inhabitants of this Island & the Memorials which they have left behind them (London: David Nutt, 1897) 255 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922) 445 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Barraclough, Geoffrey – Social Life in Early England (Barnes & Noble, 1960) 280 pp. ToC
Barrett, John – Fragments from Antiquity: an Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900-1200 BC (Blackwell, 1994) 190 pp. ToC
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Celts
Short & Friendly
1900’s
Walkley, Victor – Celtic Daily Life (London: Robinson, 1997) 120 pp. ToC
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2000’s
Grant, Neil – Everyday Life of the Celts in Uncovering History (Smart Apple Media, 2004) 45 pp.
Butterfield, Moira – Discover the Celts & the Iron Age: Everyday Life (Watts, 2016) 35 pp. ToC
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Books
1900’s
Ross, Anne – Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts (Batsford, 1970) 220 pp.
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2000’s
Alcock, Joan P. – Daily Life of the Pagan Celts (Greenwood Publishing, 2009) 240 pp.
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Roman Britain
Books
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman Britain 3rd ed. (London: Batsford, 1924) 150 pp. ToC
ed. Barraclough, Geoggrey – Social Life in Early England (Greenwood Press, 1980) 275 pp. ToC
Allason-Jones, Lindsay – Daily Life in Roman Britain (Greenwood, 2008) 195 pp. ToC
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Scotland
Social
Rogers, Charles – Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times, vol. 1, 2, 3 (Edinburgh: Paterson, 1884) 420 pp. ToC 1, 2, 3
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Popular Culture
MacKinnon, James – Culture in Early Scotland (London: Williams & Norgate, 1892) 245 pp. ToC
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Ancient Southern Europe
Italy
Book
1900’s
Friedlander, Ludwig – Town Life in Ancient Italy tr. William Waters (Sanborn, 1908) 70 pp. no ToC
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Ancient Middle East
Order of
Book
Turkey
Ugarit
Antioch
Israel
Iran
Egypt:
Pharaohs
Families
Nubians
Mythology
Cooking
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Book
eds. Averbeck, Chavalas & Weisberg – Life & Culture in the Ancient Near East (CDL Press, 2003) 515 pp. ToC
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Turkey
City of Istanbul
Whole of History
Bator, Robert – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Istanbul (Runestone Press, 2000) 65 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
Johnson, Clarence – Constantinople To-day; or the Pathfinder Survey of Constantinople; a Study in Oriental Social Life (Macmillan, 1922) 475 pp. ToC
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City of Troy
The Trojan Woman tr. Gilbert Murray (Allen & Unwin, 1925)
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Ugarit
van Selms, A. – Marriage & Family Life in Ugaritic Literature (Luzac & Co., 1954) 160 pp. ToC
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City of Antioch
Haddad, George – Aspects of Social Life in Antioch in the Hellenistic-Roman Period (Univ. of Chicago, 1949) 185 pp. ToC
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Israel
See ‘Everyday Life in Bible Times & Lands’.
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Iran
Whole History
Article
Adams, Robert – “Agriculture & Urban Life in Early Southwestern Iran” in Science, vol. 136, no. 3511 (1962), pp. 109-36
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Egypt
Friendly
Harris, Nathaniel – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (Sea-to-Sea, 2006) 35 pp. ToC
Binghma, Jane – How People Lived in Ancient Egypt (Power Kids Press, 2009) 30 pp. ToC
Rockwood, Leigh – Ancient Egyptian Daily Life in Spotlight on Ancient Civilizations: Egypt (2014) 28 pp.
Nardo, Don
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (2015) 48 pp. ToC
People of the Nile: Rhythms of Daily Life (Thomson/Gale, 2005) 110 pp. ToC
Doxey, Denise – Life in Ancient Egypt: a Journey into the Mysterious Past (Running Press, 1996) 62 pp. ToC
Challen, Paul – Life in Ancient Egypt (Crabtree Publishing, 2004) 35 pp. ToC
Streissguth, Thomas – Life in Ancient Egypt (Lucent Books, 2001) 98 pp.
Shuter, Jane
Life in an Egyptian Town (Heinemann, 2006) 32 pp. ToC
Life in an Egyptian Worker’s Village (Heinemann, 2005) 32 pp. ToC
Life in Ancient Egypt in Living History
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Article
A.M.L. – “An Exhibit Illustrating the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians” in Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 13 (1918), pp. 283-88
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Books
Budge, E.A. Wallis – A Short History of the Egyptian People, with chapters on their Reglion, Daily Life, etc. (Dent & Sons, 1914) 300 pp. ToC
Petrie, W.M. Flinders – Social Life in Ancient Egypt (Constable & Co., 1923) 220 pp. ToC
Shorter, Alan W. – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1932) 240 pp. ToC
Wilson, John – The Culture of Ancient Egypt (Phoenix Books / Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951) 375 pp. ToC
Winlock, H.E. – Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from the Tomb of Meket-Re at Thebes (Harvard Univ. Press, 1955) 205 pp. ToC
Montet, Pierre – Everyday Life in Egypt in the days of Ramesses the Great tr. Maxwell-Hyslop & Drower (St. Martin’s Press, 1958) 410 pp. ToC
Lindsay, Jack – Daily Life in Roman Egypt [30 BC to AD 640] (London: Frederick Muller, 1963) 410 pp. ToC
Sameh, Waley-el-dine – Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (McGraw-Hill, 1964) 160 pp. ToC
Mertz, Barbara – Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Egypt rev. ed. (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1978) 400 pp. ToC
Romer, John – Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984) 280 pp. ToC
Montet, Pierre – Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great [1279-1213 BC] (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1981) 410 pp.
White, Jon M. – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (Dorset Press, 1989) 208 pp. ToC
Romano, James F. – Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1990) 55 pp. ToC
Brier, Bob & Hoyt Hobbs – Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians (Greenwood Press, 1999) 265 pp. ToC
Casson, Lionel – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt rev. ed. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001) 175 pp.
Booth, Charlotte – Lost Voices of the Nile: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (Amberley, 2015) 300 pp.
Egyptian Museum of Turin – Egyption Civilization: Daily Life (Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, 1988) 260 pp.
Gray, Terence – The Life of the King of the South & North Kamari’a, Daughter of the Sun, Hatshepsut [1507 BC – 1458 BC]; a Pageant of Court Life in Old Egypt in the Early 18th Dynasty, Reconstructed from the Monuments. A chapter of Egyptian History in Dramatic Form (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1920) 310 pp. ToC
Meskell, Lynn – Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt [1539-1075 BC] (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002) 250 pp.
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Social History
Trigger, Kemp, O’Connor & Lloyd – Ancient Egypt: a Social History (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983) 460 pp. ToC
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Pharaohs
Short & Friendly
Helbrough, Emma – A Day in the Life of a Pharaoh [Ramesses, c. 1270 BC] (Power Kids Press, 2008) 36 pp. ToC
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Families
Short & Friendly
Clayton, Peter – Family Life in Ancient Egypt (Wayland, 1995) 40 pp. ToC
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Nubians
3,500 BC to 300 BC
Bianchi, Robert S. – Daily Life of the Nubians (Greenwood Press)
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Mythology
Short & Friendly
McCall, Henrietta – Gods & Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians (Peter Bedrick Books, 2001) 44 pp. ToC
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Book
Meeks, Dimitri & Christine Favard-Meeks – Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Cornell Univ. Press, 1996) 275 pp. ToC
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Cooking
Short & Friendly
Gifford, Clive – Food & Cooking in Ancient Egypt (Power Kids Press, 2010) 32 pp. ToC
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Jews
Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt [400’s BC] (Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2002) 47 pp.
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Ancient India
Order of
Indus Valley
Books
Sex
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Indus Valley
Short & Friendly
Williams, Brian – Daily Life in the Indus Valley Civilization (Raintree, 2016) 47 pp. ToC
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Books
Speir, Charlotte – Life in Ancient India (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856) 515 pp. ToC
Jain, Jagdish Chandra – Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons (New Book Co., 1947) 415 pp. ToC
Sengupta, Padmini – Everyday Life in Ancient India (Oxford Univ. Press, 1950) 210 pp. ToC
Auboyer, Jeannine – Daily Life in Ancient India from approximately 200 BC to AD 700 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961) 385 pp. ToC
Edwardes, Michael – Everyday Life in Early India (Batsford, 1969) 185 pp. ToC
Murthy, K. Krishna – Social & Cultural Life in Ancient India (Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan, 1982) 175 pp. ToC
ed. Sircar, D.C. – Social Life in Ancient India (Univ. of Calcutta, 1971) 160 pp. ToC
Chakladar, Haran Chandra – Social Life in Ancient India: Study in Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra (Cosmo Publications, 1929) 215 pp. no ToC
Narayan – Some Aspects of Social Life in Ancient India (Allhabad Narayan Publishing House, 1976) 345 pp. ToC
Singh, Madan Mohan – Life in North-Eastern India in Pre-Mauryan Times (with special reference to c. 600 B.C. – 325 B.C.) (Motilal Banarsidass, 1967) 330 pp. ToC
Vasu, Nagendra Nath – Social History Kamarupa [Antiquity to AD 1400], vol. 1, 2 (Calcutta: Author, 1922) ToC 1, 2
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Sex
Meyer, Johann J. – Sexual Life in Ancient india: a Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture, vol. 1, 2 (Dutton & Co., 1930) 280 pp. ToC 1, 2
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Ancient China
Order of
Whole History
Specific Eras
Beijing
Sex
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Whole History
ed. Kerr, Rose – Chinese Art & Design: Art Objects in Ritual & Daily Life (Overlook Press, 1991) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Kuiper, Kathleen – The Culture of China in Understanding China (Rosen, 2010) 300 pp. ToC
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Social History
Sun, E-Tu Zen & John de Frances – Chinese Social History: Translations of Selected Studies [c. 1523 – 1911] (NY: Octagon, 1966) 425 pp. ToC
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Specific Eras
1766 BC to 1046 BC
Hile, Lori – Daily Life in the Shang Dynasty China (Raintree, 2016) 45 pp. ToC
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200 BC to AD 220
Loewe, Michael – Everyday Life in Early Imperial China during the Han Period, 202 BC – AD 220 (Dorset Press, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
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600 to 1400
Contracts
Hansen, Valerie – Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People used Contracts 600-1400 (Yale Univ. Press, 1995) 300 pp.
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618 to 907
Benn, Charles – China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty [AD 618-907] (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) 335 pp. ToC
Benn, Charles – Daily Life in Traditional China: the Tang Dynasty (Greenwood Press, 2002) 340 pp. ToC
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1200’s
Gernet, Jacques – Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 (Macmillan, 1962) 265 pp. ToC
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City of Beijing
Baldwin, Robert – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Beijing (Runestone Press, 1999) 65 pp. ToC
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Sex
van Gulik, R.H. – Sexual Life in Ancient China (Brill, 1961) 435 pp. ToC
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Ancient Japan
Order of
Books
Samurai
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Books
Farris, William W. – Daily Life & Demographics in Ancient Japan (Univ. of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2020) 140 pp. ToC
Deal, William E. – Handbook to Life in Medieval & Early Modern Japan (Facts on File, 2006) 425 pp.
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Samurai
Fredeic, Louis – Daily Life in Japan at the Time of the Samurai, 1185-1603 (Praeger, 1972) 265 pp. ToC
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Ancient Central America
Order of
Sex & Drugs
Mexico
Aztecs
Mayans
Mexico City
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Sex & Drugs
Book
Guerra, Francisco – The Pre-Columbian Mind: a Study into the Aberrant Nature of Sexual Drives, Drugs affecting Behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America (Seminar Press, 1971) 370 pp. ToC
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Mexico
Burland, C.A. – Art & Life in Ancient Mexico (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1948) 105 pp.
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Aztecs
Short & Friendly
Niver, Heather – Ancient Aztec Daily Life (Power Kids Press, 2017) 33 pp.
Tanaka, Shelley – Lost Temple of the Aztecs: What it was like when the Spaniards invaded Mexico (1998) 42 pp. no ToC
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Books
Thompson, J. Eric – Mexico Before Cortez: an Account of the Daily Life, Religion & Ritual of the Aztecs & Kindred Peoples (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937) 345 pp. ToC
Bray, Warwick – Everyday Life of the Aztecs (Batsford, 1968) 205 pp.
Soustelle, Jacques – Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest (Macmillan, 1968) 360 pp. ToC
Carrasco, David & Scott Sessions – Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun & Earth 2nd ed. (Greenwood Press, 1998; 2011) 300 pp.
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Mayans
Short & Friendly
Hunter, Nick – Daily Life in the Maya Civilization (Raintree, 2016) 48 pp.
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Books
Whitlock, Ralph – Everyday Life of the Maya (Dorset Press, 1987) 190 pp. ToC
Sharer, Robert – Daily Life in Maya Civilization (Greenwood Press, 1996) 250 pp.
Foster, Lynn – Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005) 415 pp. ToC
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Mexico City
Cory, Steve – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Mexico City (Runestone Press, 1999) 65 pp. ToC
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Ancient South America
Order of
Friendly
Sex & Drugs
Peru
Incas
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Short & Friendly
Richardson, Hazel – Life in Ancient South America (Crabtree, 2005) 38 pp.
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Sex & Drugs
Book
Guerra, Francisco – The Pre-Columbian Mind: a Study into the Aberrant Nature of Sexual Drives, Drugs affecting Behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America (Seminar Press, 1971) 370 pp. ToC
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Peru
Wood, Alix – Uncovering the Culture of Ancient Peru (2015) 34 pp.
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Incas
Books
Kendall, Ann – Everyday Life of the Incas (Batsford, 1973) 210 pp. ToC
Malpass, Michael – Daily Life in the Inca Empire (Hackett Publishing Co., 2008) 190 pp. ToC
Baudin, Louis – Daily Life in Peru under the Last Incas [1500-1572] (Macmillan, 1962) 250 pp. ToC This was republished as: Daily Life of the Incas (Dover, 2003)
Rome, Jesus & Lucienne – Life of the Incas in Ancient Peru (1987) 142 pp.
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Ancient Africa
Order of
Friendly
North Africa
West Africa
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Short & Friendly
Richardson, Hazel – Life in Ancient Africa (Crabtree, 2005) 32 pp.
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North Africa
Carthage
Charles-Picard, Gilbert & Colette – Daily Life in Carthage at the Time of Hannibal [247-183 BC] tr. A. Foster (Macmillan, 1961) 265 pp. ToC
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West Africa
Short & Friendly
Mason, Paul – Daily Life in Ancient Benin (Raintree, 2016) 50 pp. ToC
Brook, Larry – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Timbuktu (Runestone Press, 1999) 65 pp. ToC
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Ghana
Whole History
Bibliography
Amedekey, E.Y. – The Culture of Ghana: a Bibliography (Ghana Univ. Press, 1970) 225 pp. ToC
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