WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLDS by Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor), Nathan Rosenstein (Editor) ( 9780674006591 )

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WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLDS
ASIA, THE MEDITERRANEAN, EUROPE AND MESOAMERICA

By:

Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor), Nathan Rosenstein (Editor)

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0674006593

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9780674006591

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

10 September, 2001

Series:

Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. 3

Pages:

544

Description:

A social history of war from the 3rd millennium BCE to the 10th-century CE in the Mediterranean, the Near East and Europe with parallel studies of Mesoamerica and East Asia. The volume examines war and military organization in their interactions with social, economic and political structures.

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This social history of war from the third millennium BCE to the 10th-century CE in the Mediterranean, the Near East and Europe (Egypt, Achamenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic World, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the early Islamic World and early Medieval Europe) with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and Aztecs) and East Asia (ancient China, medieval Japan). The volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social, economic and political structures, as well as cultural practices.

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1 illustration, 13 maps

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Harvard University Press

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