Paolo Giovio

Devil’s Arithmetic

flooded tidal landscapes

Edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren

one whose organization and content allowed eighteenth-century writers to sever the histories of Europe and the Americas

Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World Sale Books Paolo GiovioEdited by Matthew P. Canepa A cutting edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever wider swath of Afro Eurasia