War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Paperback by Kurt Raaflaub

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2001-10-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 496 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674006591
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

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.

Pierre Briant is Emeritus Professor of History of the Achaemenid World and Alexander’s Empire at the Collège de France.

William Wayne Farris is Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

Robin D. S. Yates is Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University.