War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica

Nathan Rosenstein

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$19.50 • £15.95 • €17.50

ISBN 9780674006591

Publication Date: 10/30/2001

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496 pages

1 line illustration, 2 halftones, 16 maps

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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]
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