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The Resource Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome, edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson

Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome, edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson

Label
Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome
Title
Makers of ancient strategy
Title remainder
from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome
Statement of responsibility
edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Dewey number
355.4
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Hanson, Victor Davis
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  • Military history, Ancient
  • Military art and science
Label
Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome, edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
From Persia with love : propaganda and imperial overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars / Tom Holland -- Pericles, Thucydides, and the defense of empire / Donald Kagan -- Why fortifications endure : a case study of the walls of Athens during the classical period / David L. Berkey -- Epaminondas the Theban and the doctrine of preemptive war / Victor Davis Hanson -- Alexander the Great, nation building, and the creation and maintenance of empire / Ian Worthington -- Urban warfare in the classical Greek world / John W. I. Lee -- Counterinsurgency and the enemies of Rome / Susan Mattern -- Slave wars of Greece and Rome / Barry Strauss -- Julius Caesar and the general as state / Adrian Goldsworthy -- Holding the line : frontier defense and the later Roman Empire -- Peter J. Heather
Control code
000044625583
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 265 p.
Isbn
9780691137902
Isbn Type
(hardcover : alk. paper)
Label
Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome, edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
From Persia with love : propaganda and imperial overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars / Tom Holland -- Pericles, Thucydides, and the defense of empire / Donald Kagan -- Why fortifications endure : a case study of the walls of Athens during the classical period / David L. Berkey -- Epaminondas the Theban and the doctrine of preemptive war / Victor Davis Hanson -- Alexander the Great, nation building, and the creation and maintenance of empire / Ian Worthington -- Urban warfare in the classical Greek world / John W. I. Lee -- Counterinsurgency and the enemies of Rome / Susan Mattern -- Slave wars of Greece and Rome / Barry Strauss -- Julius Caesar and the general as state / Adrian Goldsworthy -- Holding the line : frontier defense and the later Roman Empire -- Peter J. Heather
Control code
000044625583
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 265 p.
Isbn
9780691137902
Isbn Type
(hardcover : alk. paper)

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