Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer-present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era. Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines-classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars, some with firsthand experience of war and some without-engaging with classical texts to understand how differently they were read in other times and places. Contributors articulate difficult but necessary questions about contemporary conceptions of war and conflict. Contributors include Victor Caston, Page duBois, Susanne Godde, Peter Meineck, Sara Monoson, David Potter, Kurt Raaflaub, Arlene Saxonhouse, Seth Schein, Nancy Sherman, Hans van Wees, Silke-Maria Weineck, and Paul Woodruff.

Product Description: Dieser Band bietet erstmalig eine umfassende Geschichte der Kriegsbeute von Megiddo uber die alttestamentlichen Belege bis in die vornapoleonische Zeit. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der Burgunderbeute von 1476. Anhand zeitgenossischer Texte werden Zusammensetzung, Verwendung und Wirkung von Beuten untersucht und in grosseren historischen Zusammenhangen verortet...read more

Product Description: 'Civilization and War is an exceptionally erudite and timely meditation on the close relationship between civilization, progress and war in modern political thought and policy from the Enlightenment to the war on terror. It is a fitting complement to Dr...read more

Product Description: Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and the United States...read more

Product Description: Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat...read more

Product Description: In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups, The Arc of War draws on a wealth of empirical data to enhance our understanding of how war began and how it has changed over time...read more

Product Description: Although the horrors of war are manifest, academic debate is dominated by accounts that reinforce the concept of warfare as a rational project. Seeking to explain this paradox - to uncover the motivations at the core of warring communities - Theo Farrell explores the cultural forces that have shaped modern Western conflict...read more

Argues that all cultures are not created equally and suggests that the clash of cultures throughout world history resembles the theory of survival of the fittest

Illustrates how electric technology stimulates more diversity than the old mechanical society

Product Description: The Spoils of War includes essays by fourteen scholars in a variety of disciplines who consider both the destructive and constructive forces of war from the days of the Greeks and Trojans to medieval times, from the American Civil War through World Wars I and II, to the Cold War and Vietnam, and even the recent uprisings in Chiapas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume will explore the specific role which war has played in the constitution of a modern mentality. It will be divided into three parts: one dealing with issues of conceptualizing war, violence, and modernity/ modernism, one devoted to issues of the First World War as an exemplary experience in the 20th century; and one concerned with issues of violence and its representation in the aftermath of the first modern war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Analyzes the myth of the war experience--the mind-set that overlooked the carnage and brutality of the two world wars and justified the conflicts