War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe and Mesoamerica

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Nathan Rosenstein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

492 Seiten

1999
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-94660-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.12.1999
Reihe/Serie	Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. ; No.3
Zusatzinfo	1 illustration, 13 maps
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-674-94660-X / 067494660X
ISBN-13	978-0-674-94660-6 / 9780674946606
Zustand	Neuware