War and Peace in the Ancient World

by: Raaflaub, K.A.

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War and peace in the ancient world
Author:Kurt A. Raaflaub

This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. Nineteen distinguished scholars discuss different aspects of this subject in relation to a large number of early civilisations, from China and India through West Asia (Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Hittites, Israel, Persian, and early Islam) to the Mediterranean (Greece, Rome and early Christianity) and the Americas (the Aztecs and the Iroquois Peace League). The book demonstrates that ancient societies, no less than modern ones, suffered from the losses and destructions caused by war, and yearned for peace and prosperity. Some early societies even developed an explicit public discourse on war and peace, and embedded peace in an ideological or religious framework.

Contents:
Introduction : Searching for peace in the ancient world / Kurt A. Raaflaub
Making war and making peace in early China / Robin D.S. Yates
Ancient India : peace within and war without / Richard Salomon
Water under the straw : peace in Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster
Making, preserving, and breaking the peace with the Hittite state / Richard H. Beal
Conflict and reconciliation in the ancient Middle East : the clash of Egyptian and Hittite chariots in Syria, and the world's first peace treaty between "Superpowers" / Lanny Bell
From Achaemenid imperial order to Sasanian diplomacy : war, peace, and reconciliation in pre-Islamic Iran / Josef Wiesehöfer
War and reconciliation in the traditions of ancient Israel : historical, literary, and ideological considerations / Susan Niditch
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" : a vision of peace through justice and its background in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas Krüger
"Laughing for joy" : war and peace among the Greeks / Lawrence A. Tritle
War and reconciliation in Greek literature / David Konstan
War, peace, and international law in ancient Greece / Victor Alonso
War and peace, fear and reconciliation at Rome / Nathan Rosenstein
The price of peace in ancient Rome / Carlin A. Barton
The gates of war (and peace) : Roman literary perspectives / Jeri DeBrohun
Early Christian views on violence, war, and peace / Louis J. Swift
Fight for God, but do so with kindness : reflections on war, peace, and communal identity in early Islam / Fred M. Donner
Peace, reconciliation, and alliance in Aztec Mexico / Ross Hassig
War and peace in the Inca heartland / Catherine Julien
The long peace among Iroquois nations / Neta C. Crawford

Series:
Ancient world--comparative histories

xii, 385 pages ; 26 cm.

War and Peace in the Ancient World

by: Raaflaub, K.A.

• ISBN-13: 9781405145268 / 978-1-4051-4526-8
• ISBN-03: 1405145269 / 1-4051-4526-9
• Blackwell, Oxford, 2007

Price: 38,00 EURO

(in stock)