This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. The first book to focus on war and peace in the ancient world T

This is a major study of the ideas and practices involved in the making and breaking of peace treaties and truces from Classical Greece to the time of the Crusa

Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories

The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wid

Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a commo