Makers of Ancient Strategy (eBook)

From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome

Victor Davis Hanson (Herausgeber)

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2010
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3425-9 (ISBN)

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Timeless lessons from the military strategies of the ancient Greeks and RomansIn this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world.The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today-such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing-has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington.

Autor

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His many books include A War Like No Other and Between War and Peace. He is a syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services, and is the current codirector of the group on military history and contemporary conflict at the Hoover Institution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2010
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 350s • Aedui • Alemanni • Ancient Greece • Ariovistus • aristocracy • Asia Minor • assassination • Banditry • Barbarian • Cambridge University Press • Cavalry • Cilicia • CIMON • city-state • Classical Antiquity • Classical Greece • Copy editing • Cornell University • Counter-Insurgency • Culture of Greece • cyrus the great • Delian League • Dictatorship • Dionysus • Donald Kagan • Epaminondas • fall of the western roman empire • Fortification • Gauls • grand strategy • Great Power • Greco-Persian Wars • Greeks • guerrilla warfare • hegemony • Hellenistic period • Helots • Helvetii • Herodotus • Hoover Institution • hoplite • HUNS • Ideology • imperialism • infantry • Insurgency • Ionians • Judea (Roman province) • legionary • Long Walls • Looting • Mark Antony • Messene • military history • Oxford University Press • Peloponnese • Peloponnesian War • Pericles • Philosopher • Plataea • Polis • Politician • Politics • proofreading • Reprisal • Roman Army • Roman Empire • roman legion • roman republic • Roman warfare • Routledge • satrap • Scholarship • sicily • Siege • Slave Rebellion • Slavery • Stanford University • Subsidy • Sulla • Superiority (short story) • Tax • Technology • terrorism • Thebes, Greece • Themistocles • The Persians • Thucydides • Tobiah (Ammonite) • treatise • Tyrant • University of California Press • Urban Warfare • Vassal • Vercingetorix • war • warfare • Yale University • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3425-2 / 1400834252
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3425-9 / 9781400834259