The product of a colloquium at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, this volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social, economic, and political structures as well as cultural practices.
A social history of war from the 3rd millennium BCE to the 10th-century CE in the Mediterranean, the Near East and Europe with parallel studies of Mesoamerica and East Asia. The volume examines war and military organization in their interactions with social, economic and political structures.
