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Dexter Hoyos, author of many previous studies of individual aspects of Carthaginian history, here provides a solid and welcome overview of Carthage, its history, politics, institutions, religion, society, culture, architecture and archaeology. Balancing the literary evidence, which is almost entirely the work of Greeks and Romans, with the material record, Hoyos treats his subject thematically, first looking at the origins of Carthage, and the functioning of the Carthaginian state, before turning to the economy, the city itself, and relations with foreign powers, both in its Mediterranean wide trade networks and sea-empire, and in the bitter struggle with Rome, which became the city's downfall.