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War: Antiquity and Its Legacy
Contributor(s): Bradford, Alfred S. (Author)
ISBN: 0195380916     ISBN-13: 9780195380910
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $22.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Military Science
- History | Ancient - Rome
- History | Ancient - Greece
Dewey: 355.02
LCCN: 2015430658
Series: Ancients & Moderns
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Italy
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
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Publisher Description:
By one estimate, humans have fought wars in ninety-four out of every hundred years for the past 5,000. Despite radical differences in the prosecution of warfare between ancient and modern societies, there remains a linear connection to the ways that Greco-Roman cultures thought about war--its
conduct, aims, tactics, and ethics. This is epitomized most obviously in the Greek and Latin derivatives that dot our language of war--army, military, strategy. Combining astute analyses of the logistics of conflict with the ethics of war, Alfred Bradford offers fascinating parallels between
warfare in ancient and contemporary societies. After a brief prelude that discusses the Greeks' first descriptions of battle in the Iliad, Bradford outlines the changes in warfare from the earliest records through the fall of the Roman Empire to contemporary wars of counterterrorism. The second half
of the book turns to discuss more holistically the study of war, the writing of war, and images of war, drawing on a diverse range of texts and images. Fundamentally, Bradford shows that despite massive differences in weaponry and firepower, the basic principles of warfare have remained unchanged
over thousands of years, and even as we move further from antiquity, war in the modern age is persistently illuminated by our Greek and Roman forbearers.