War: Antiquity and Its Legacy - Brossura

Bradford, Alfred S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195380916 ISBN 13: 9780195380910

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alfred S. Bradford is Saxon Chair in Ancient History, University of Oklahoma, and author of four books, most recently Leonidas and the Kings of Sparta (Praeger 2011).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0195380916
• ISBN 13: 9780195380910
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176