Gabriel Baker provides an important corrective to our understanding of ancient warfare and our thinking about the long history of total war and terror, manifested today by ISIS. He casts a new light on Roman warfare and the strategic use of total war to achieve long-term military objectives and the pacification of conquered territories.
Gabriel Baker provides an important corrective to our understanding of ancient warfare and our thinking about the long history of total war and terror, manifested today by ISIS. He casts a new light on Roman warfare and the strategic use of total war to achieve long-term military objectives and the pacification of conquered territories.
Gabriel Baker holds a PhD in history from the University of Iowa and specializes in Roman and Hellenistic warfare. An earlier version of his biography and the first paperback printing incorrectly listed his affiliation as Georgetown University, which was the publisher's error.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Acknowledgments 1 "As Is the Roman Custom": War and Mass Violence in the Roman Republic, Third and Second Centuries BCE 1 2 "Adorned with Scars": Roman Military and Political History to 146 BCE 1 3 "What the Fire Could Not Consume": Methods of Mass Violence 3 4 "The Ram Has Hammered at Their Walls": The Logic of Mass Violence 6 5 "Deterred by Fear": Defection and Deterrence in the Second Punic War 8 6 "So Much Destruction and Utter Ruin": Politics and Pragmatism in the Third Macedonian War 7 "He Soaked Spanish Soil with Blood": Failure and Frustration in the Lusitanian War 8 Conclusion Appendix 1. 124 Cases of Mass Violence in Roman Warfare, c. 400-100 BCE Appendix 2. 181 Cases of Mass Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare (excluding Rome), c. 500-100 BCE Appendix 3. The Government and Army in the Middle Republic Bibliography Index About the Author
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Acknowledgments 1 "As Is the Roman Custom": War and Mass Violence in the Roman Republic, Third and Second Centuries BCE 1 2 "Adorned with Scars": Roman Military and Political History to 146 BCE 1 3 "What the Fire Could Not Consume": Methods of Mass Violence 3 4 "The Ram Has Hammered at Their Walls": The Logic of Mass Violence 6 5 "Deterred by Fear": Defection and Deterrence in the Second Punic War 8 6 "So Much Destruction and Utter Ruin": Politics and Pragmatism in the Third Macedonian War 7 "He Soaked Spanish Soil with Blood": Failure and Frustration in the Lusitanian War 8 Conclusion Appendix 1. 124 Cases of Mass Violence in Roman Warfare, c. 400-100 BCE Appendix 2. 181 Cases of Mass Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare (excluding Rome), c. 500-100 BCE Appendix 3. The Government and Army in the Middle Republic Bibliography Index About the Author
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