![]() ![]() Tucker The Irish and British Wars, 1637–1654 Triumph, Tragedy, and Failure James Scott Wheeler Israel’s Wars, 1947–1993 Ahron Bregman Wilson The Great War 1914–1918 Spencer C. Lazenby Frontiersmen: Warfare in Africa Since 1950 Anthony Clayton German Armies War and German Politics, 1648–1806 Peter H. The Peloponnesian War A military study J. ![]() Ottoman Warfare, 1500–1700 Rhoads Murphey Beckett Mughal Warfare Imperial Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500–1700 Jos Gommans Naval Warfare, 1815–1914 Lawrence Sondhaus Modern Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750 Ian F. Hall English Warfare, 1511–1642 Mark Charles Fissel European and Native American Warfare, 1675–1815 Armstrong Starkey The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913 Prelude to the First World War Richard C. Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989 Bruce A. The Armies of the Caliphs Military and Society in the Early Islamic State Hugh Kennedy Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000–1500 Susan Rose Warfare and History General Editor Jeremy Black Professor of History, University of Exeter Air Power in the Age of Total War John Buckley He is co-author of World History to 1648 (1993). Hamblin is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, specializing in Near Eastern and military history. Illustrated throughout, including maps of the region, this book is essential for experts and non-specialists alike. Hamblin pays particular attention to the earliest-known examples of holy war ideology in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and argues that this era laid the foundation for later Near Eastern concepts of holy war, and that such understandings remain of vital significance in the world today. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic, and archaeological data, Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC offers a detailed analysis of the military technology, ideology, and practices of Near Eastern warfare, focusing on key topics including: recruitment and training of the soldiers the logistics and weaponry of warfare, with emphasis on the shift from stone to metal weapons the role played by magic narratives of combat and artistic representations of battle the origins and development of the chariot as a mode of military transportation fortifications and siegecraft and developments in naval warfare. Hamblin synthesises current knowledge of early ancient Near Eastern military history in an accessible way, from the Neolitihic era until the Middle Bronze Age. In this groundbreaking and fascinating study, William J. Chronologically, however, half of recorded military history occurred before the Greeks rose to military predominance. ‘Hamblin’s book is a goldmine of information – both textual and archaeological – on ancient Near Eastern warfare before the Late Bronze Age.’ Professor Robert Drews, Vanderbilt University For many historians, military history began in Classical Greece. Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC In a jacket endorsement, Professor Robert Drews of Vanderbilt University pronounces the book "a goldmine of information-both textual and archaeological." Hamblin pays particular attention to the ideology of the "holy war" in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, arguing that subsequent Near Eastern concepts of "holy war" (including today's) should be understood against this older background. Among many other topics, the book treats questions of recruitment and training, logistics, weaponry, the role of "magic," naval conflict, fortifications, and combat narratives. In between, he discusses warfare and siegecraft in Mesopotamia under the Akkadians and Neo-Sumerians and through the Middle Bronze Age (which furnishes the volume's terminal date) covers Mari, Syria, Lebanon, Canaan, and Anatolia and closes with several chapters on warfare in Egypt commencing from the Pre-Dynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods. 3000)" to an eighteenth chapter treating "Early Second Intermediate Period Egypt (1786-1667)." Ricks, coeditor of the important 1990 FARMS volume Warfare in the Book of Mormon), has produced a hefty tome that ranges from its opening chapter on "The Neolithic Age and the Origin of Warfare (to c. Hamblin, a professor of history at Brigham Young University and a frequent FARMS contributor (for example, with Stephen D. ![]()
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