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War and society in the Roman world /

The impact of war on ancient society is the subject of this book and the companion volume, War and Society in the Greek World. Earlier studies of ancient warfare have concentrated on political causes, tactics, strategy and military organisation. In these volumes warfare is viewed rather as a species...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rich, John, 1944-, Shipley, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Colección:Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Roman conquest of Italy / Stephen Oakley
  • Fear, greed and glory : the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic / John Rich
  • Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities / Adam Ziolkowski
  • Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic / John Patterson
  • Roman poetry and anti-militarism / Duncan Cloud
  • The end of Roman imperial expansion / Tim Cornell
  • Roman peace / Greg Woolf
  • Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication / David Braund
  • War and diplomacy : Rome and Parthia, 31 BC-AD 235 / Brian Campbell
  • Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate / Harry Sidebottom
  • The end of the Roman army in the western empire / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz
  • Landlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire / Dick Whittaker.