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Author	Luttwak, Edward, author.
Title	The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire / Edward N. Luttwak.
Publication Info	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Descript	xi, 498 p. : maps.
Contents	pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy -- Attila and the crisis of empire -- The emergence of the new strategy -- pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods -- Envoys -- Religion and statecraft -- The uses of imperial prestige -- Dynastic marriages -- The geography of power -- Bulghars and Bulgarians -- The Muslim Arabs and Turks -- pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war -- The classical inheritance -- The strategikon of Maurikios -- After the strategikon -- Leo VI and naval warfare -- The tenth-century military renaissance -- Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia -- Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI -- Glossary.
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ISBN	9780674054202

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Author	Luttwak, Edward, author.
Subject	Strategy -- History -- To 1500.
	Military art and science -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
	Imperialism -- History -- To 1500.
	Byzantine Empire -- Military policy.
	Byzantine Empire -- History, Military.
	Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations.
Alt author	ProQuest (Firm)

Descript	xi, 498 p. : maps.
Contents	pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy -- Attila and the crisis of empire -- The emergence of the new strategy -- pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods -- Envoys -- Religion and statecraft -- The uses of imperial prestige -- Dynastic marriages -- The geography of power -- Bulghars and Bulgarians -- The Muslim Arabs and Turks -- pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war -- The classical inheritance -- The strategikon of Maurikios -- After the strategikon -- Leo VI and naval warfare -- The tenth-century military renaissance -- Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia -- Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI -- Glossary.
Note	Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN	9780674054202

Author	Luttwak, Edward, author.
Subject	Strategy -- History -- To 1500.
	Military art and science -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
	Imperialism -- History -- To 1500.
	Byzantine Empire -- Military policy.
	Byzantine Empire -- History, Military.
	Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations.
Alt author	ProQuest (Firm)

Subject	Strategy -- History -- To 1500.
	Military art and science -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
	Imperialism -- History -- To 1500.
	Byzantine Empire -- Military policy.
	Byzantine Empire -- History, Military.
	Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations.
Descript	xi, 498 p. : maps.
Contents	pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy -- Attila and the crisis of empire -- The emergence of the new strategy -- pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods -- Envoys -- Religion and statecraft -- The uses of imperial prestige -- Dynastic marriages -- The geography of power -- Bulghars and Bulgarians -- The Muslim Arabs and Turks -- pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war -- The classical inheritance -- The strategikon of Maurikios -- After the strategikon -- Leo VI and naval warfare -- The tenth-century military renaissance -- Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia -- Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI -- Glossary.
Note	Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780674054202

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