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The Variorum Collected Studies Series has a prominent place in the Ashgate lists, with an international reputation established over the last 35 years for the publication of key research by leading scholars across the fields of historical studies. Subjects covered range from antiquity to the 19th century, and include the histories of science, philosophy, art and music. This series is now complemented by reference collections including early Islamic history and the expansion of Europe.

With a published list of well over 900 titles, the Variorum Collected Studies Series has seen great expansion. Its long-standing strengths in Byzantine, medieval and early modern history are matched by the lists in Asian history, Islamic studies and the history of science and music.

Variorum's prominence in the field of Byzantine studies is now enhanced by the series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs and the Publications for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

Alongside the Collected Studies Series are a set of reference series, bringing together key articles on particular historical topics. The Formation of the Classical Islamic World provides a comprehensive body of research making available the most important papers and articles on the rise and spread of Islam in the early Middle Ages. Its coverage includes all aspects of the Islamic world, from its 'pre-history' up to c. 950 AD. To complement this, there is starting a new series on The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500.

The 'European expansion' is one of the factors that has shaped world history, but approaches to the subject have changed markedly over the past decades. The new series The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500 sets the scene for the subjects covered in An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800, and The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 presents the historical processes and developments in the multi-century 'opening of the Pacific' and the linking together of the lands around and within this great ocean.

The interactions between technology, science and economic and cultural history form the subject of Studies in the History of Civil Engineering. The 12 volumes in this series examine the engineering that lies behind all great building projects, from antiquity through into the industrial era.

These series form one part of the Ashgate lists in History.