The first armies
By: Doyne Dawson ; general editor, John Keegan.
Contributors: Keegan, John, 1934-
Publisher: Cassell Military
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Military art and science -- History.; Military history, Ancient.; Armies -- Asia -- History.; Armies -- Africa -- History.
Description: This book traces the roots of war into the animal past of mankind, deals with Hobbesian warfare, and covers Clausewitzian warfare in the region now called the Middle East from roughly 3500 to 500 B.C.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I THE ROOTS OF WAR; title: The nature of the problem; Ants and apes; Becoming; title: human; The cultural explosion 21; title: 2 THE WARS OF THE TRIBES; title: 35,000-3200 BC; title: The role of warfare in cultural evolution; Bands,; title: tribes and chiefdoms; The arbiter of history 47; title: 3 THE WARS OF THE CITIES; title: 3200-I700 BC; title: The birth of politics; Early Dynastic Sumer; The Great; title: Dynasties of Mesopotamia: Akkad, Ur, Babylon;; title: Beyond Mesopotamia: The Nile and the Indus 75; title: 4 THE WARS OF THE GREAT; title: KINGDOMS I700-II00 BC; title: The coming of the Indo-Europeans; War and politics; title: in the High Bronze Age; The battles of Megiddo; title: and Kadesh; The fall of the Chariot Kingdoms I9; title: 5 THE WARS OF THE EMPIRES; title: I IOO-5 39 BC; title: The dawn of the Iron Age; The rise of Assyria; The fall; title: of Assyria; The aftermath: Jerusalem and Babylon;; title: Conclusion 159; title: APPENDIX 212; title: BIOGRAPHIES 214; title: FURTHER READING 217; title: INDEX 22.; title: PICTURE CREDITS 224.