War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica Paperback Harvard University Press
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War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica Paperback Harvard University Press

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica

Harvard University Press
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This volume is 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.

Author: Kurt Raaflaub
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 10/30/2001
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.99d
ISBN13: 9780674006591
ISBN10: 0674006593
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- History | Ancient | General
- History | Europe | Medieval