War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica

by Brian Campbell and Pierre Briant

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006593
• ISBN13: 9780674006591
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"