Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research, Volume I, Volume 1

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Geoff Lee, Helene Whittaker, Graham Wrightson
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Sep 10, 2015 - History - 375 pages
This volume provides chapters on current research into ancient warfare. It is a collection with a wide-range, covering a long chronological spread, with many historical themes, including some that have recently been rather neglected. It has wide academic relevance to a number of on-going debates on themes in ancient warfare. Each topic covered is coherently presented, and offers convincing coverage of the subject area. There is a high standard of scholarship and presentation; chapters are well documented with extensive bibliographies. It is readable and successful in engaging the reader’s attention, and presents subject matter in an accessible way. The book will particularly appeal to professional historians, students and a wider audience of those interested in ancient warfare.

 

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Contents

Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
14
Chapter Three
32
Chapter Four
43
Chapter Five
65
Chapter Six
94
Chapter Seven
107
Chapter Eight
124
Chapter Twelve
210
Chapter Thirteen
229
Chapter Fourteen
252
Chapter Fifteen
273
Chapter Sixteen
291
Chapter Seventeen
309
Chapter Eighteen
331
Contributors
349

Chapter Nine
147
Chapter Ten
172
Chapter Eleven
191
Indices
353
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About the author (2015)

Geoff Lee is an independent researcher, and holds a MA in Ancient History and Classical Studies. He researches ancient amphibious warfare and is the organiser of the International Ancient Warfare Conference.

Helene Whittaker is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. Her research is mainly concerned with the Greek Bronze Age, but she has also published within various areas of Greek and Roman history, philosophy, religion, and literature. Her latest book is Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece (CUP, 2014).

Graham Wrightson is Assistant Professor of History at South Dakota State University. His research focuses primarily on Macedonian military history. He gained his PhD at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has published a number of articles and papers on Macedonian warfare and is a co-editor of Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in the Social, Political and Military Consequences of Conquest Societies (Oxbow, 2015) and The Many Faces of War in the Ancient World (Cambridge Scholars, 2015). He is also working on a textbook for Western Civilization 1 tentatively entitled Becoming Civilized (Cognella, 2015).

Bibliographic information

TitleAncient Warfare: Introducing Current Research, Volume I, Volume 1
EditorsGeoff Lee, Helene Whittaker, Graham Wrightson
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
ISBN1443882364, 9781443882361
Length375 pages
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History / Ancient / General
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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