War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds : Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (Hellenic Studies Series)

war and society in the ancient and medieval worlds : asia, the mediterranean, europe, and mesoamerica (hellenic studies series)

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds : Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (Hellenic Studies Series)

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Book Description
A unique, multi-authored social history of war from the third millennium B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E. in the Mediterranean, the Near East, and Europe (Egypt, Achaemenid 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 product of a colloquium at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, this 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.

About the Author
Kurt A. Raaflaub is Professor of Classics and History at Brown University, and Joint Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. Nathan Rosenstein is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University.

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (Hellenic Studies Series),Kurt A. Raaflaub,Nathan Rosenstein,The Center for Hellenic Studies,0674006593,Ancient - General,History,History - General History,History: World,Medieval,World - General,BCE to c 500 CE,History / World,Social history,Warfare & Defence,World history: BCE to c 500 CE,World history: c 500 to C 1500,c 500 CE to c 1000 CE

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