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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gabriel, Richard A. Ancient world. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006029538 (OCoLC)71288750 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard A Gabriel |
ISBN: | 9780313041990 0313041997 |
OCLC Number: | 230757758 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | I. Military life -- Origins of war -- The soldier -- Recruitment -- Manpower -- Rations -- Equipment -- The camp -- Discipline and punishment -- Weapons -- Armor, helmets, and shields -- Chariotry -- Cavalry -- Logistics and transport -- Strategic range and endurance -- Tactics -- Military staffs -- Siegecraft and artillery -- Death and wounding -- Infection and disease -- Injury -- Medical care -- II. Ancient armies -- Sumer and Akkad (3500-2200 B.C.E.) -- Egypt (1580-960 B.C.E.) -- The Mitanni (1480-1335 B.C.E.) -- The Hittites (1450-1180 B.C.E.) -- The Canaanites (1500-900 B.C.E.) -- The Philistines (1200-900 B.C.E.) -- The Israelites (1100-921 B.C.E.) -- Assyria (890-612 B.C.E.) -- China (1750-256 B.C.E.) -- India (1200-120 B.C.E.) -- Classical Greece (600-338 B.C.E.) -- Persia (546-323 B.C.E.) -- Imperial Greece (356-323 B.C.E.) -- The Successors (323-168 B.C.E.) -- Republican Rome (500-28 B.C.E.) -- Carthage (814-146 B.C.E.) -- The barbarians: Gauls, Germans, and Goths (58 B.C.E.-445 C.E.) -- Imperial Rome (9-450 C.E.). |
Series Title: | Soldiers' lives through history. |
Responsibility: | Richard A. Gabriel. |
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"Aimed at the general reader or college-level researcher, this is an excellent introduction to the topic....This work is recommended for academic and public libraries with military history collections." - American Reference Books Annual "American military historian Gabriel covers a period from the beginning of the Bronze Age, about 4,000 BCE through the end of the Roman and Byzantine Empires. First he addresses such aspects of military life as the physical conditions of soldiers, equipment, discipline and punishment, tactics, death and wounding, and military medical care. Then he profiles 18 major armies of antiquity, including those of Sumer and Akkad, China, Persia, Imperial Greece, Carthage, and Imperial Rome." - Reference & Research Book News Read more...


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