The Persian Empire: A Historical Encyclopaedia

Part of ABC-CLIO’s new Empires of the World series, The Persian Empire is available as a two-volume print set or as an e-book. The e-book version, as here reviewed, displays the typical characteristics that one would expect of this format, and these need not be discussed here; rather, it is important to have a look at the actual content of the encyclopaedia. With a contents list that covers two pages readers can be assured that there is plenty of material. At only 880 pages, however, the entries are necessarily short and succinct, but this does not detract from the work’s...