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The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.

Door Robert Drews

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#385618-UF15
Titel	The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.
Auteur	Drews, Robert
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Princeton University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0691048118
ISBN13	9780691048116
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century B. C. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations - earthquakes, migrations, drought, systems collapse - and proposes a military one instead. Combining fascinating archaeological facts with vivid descriptions of military tactics, Drews presents the transition from chariot to infantry warfare as the primary cause of the Great Kingdoms' downfall. Late in the thirteenth c... (Lees verder)entury B. C. the barbarians who until then had been little cause for concern to the Great Kingdoms, and who had served the kings as mercenary "runners" in support of the chariots, awoke to the fact that en masse they could destroy a chariot army. There followed an orgy of slaughter, looting, and destruction. From the ashes arose the city-states of Greece and the tribal confederacy of Israel, communities that depended on massed formations of infantrymen. In making these arguments, the author uses textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct what actually happened in the Bronze Age chariot battles, as well as the combat that characterized the Catastrophe.
Pagina's	252
Conditie	Goed — Cover slightly stained.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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