War And Peace in the Ancient World, Paperback by Raaflaub, Kurt A. (EDT), ISBN 1405145269, ISBN-13 9781405145268, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

In a 2002 lecture series and colloquium in the Ancient Studies program at Brown University, historians from Europe and North America looked at war and peace in nine early civilization from China through India and West Asia to the Mediterranean and Mesoamerica. The 20 essays here, revised from presentations there, consider such topics as peace within and war without in ancient India, from Archaemenid imperial order to Sasanian diplomacy in pre-Islamic Iran, the price of peace in ancient Rome, and the long peace among Iroquois nations. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()