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Title Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome / edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson.
Publication Info Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.



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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.
ISBN 9781400834259 (electronic bk.)
1400834252 (electronic bk.)
9780691137902 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691137900 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Standard no. 9786612608230
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Subject Military art and science -- History -- To 500.
Military history, Ancient.
Alt author Hanson, Victor Davis.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 265 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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.
ISBN 9781400834259 (electronic bk.)
1400834252 (electronic bk.)
9780691137902 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691137900 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Standard no. 9786612608230
Subject Military art and science -- History -- To 500.
Military history, Ancient.
Alt author Hanson, Victor Davis.

Subject Military art and science -- History -- To 500.
Military history, Ancient.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 265 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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.
Alt author Hanson, Victor Davis.
ISBN 9781400834259 (electronic bk.)
1400834252 (electronic bk.)
9780691137902 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691137900 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Standard no. 9786612608230

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