War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica

Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub

Edited by Nathan Rosenstein

    Preface

    1. Introduction

    Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein

    2. Early China

    Robin D. S. Yates

    3. Japan to 1300

    W. Wayne Farris

    4. Ancient Egypt

    Andrea M. Gnirs

    5. The Achaemenid Empire

    Pierre Briant

    6. Archaic and Classical Greece

    Kurt Raaflaub

    7. The Hellenistic World

    Charles D. Hamilton

    8. Republican Rome

    Nathan Rosenstein

    9. The Roman Empire

    Brian Campbell

    10. The Byzantine World

    John Haldon

    11. Early Medieval Europe

    Bernard S. Bachrach

    12. The Early Islamic World

    Patricia Crone

    13. Ancient Maya Warfare

    David Webster

    14. The Aztec World

    Ross Hassig

    15. A Paradigm for the Study of War and Society

    R. Brian Ferguson

    16. Epilogue

    Victor Davis Hanson and Barry S. Strauss

    The Contributors

    Index

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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.