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Autore |
Ruzicka Stephen <1946-> |
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Titolo |
Trouble in the west [[electronic resource] ] : the Persian Empire and Egypt, 525-332 BCE / / Stephen Ruzicka |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-59489-6 |
9786613624727 |
0-19-990877-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford Studies in Early Empires |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Egypt History To 332 B.C |
Iran History To 640 |
Egypt History, Military |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; List of Illustrations; Maps; Introduction: Stories and Sources; 1. Persia and Egypt: The Historical Context; 2. Persian Success: Conquest and Kingship, 525-518; 3. Managing Egypt, 518-415; 4. Losing Egypt, 415-400; 5. Securing the Eastern Mediterranean, 400-395; 6. Into the Aegean, 394-392; 7. To Egypt: Preparations and Campaign, 391-387; 8. The Egyptian War and the King's Peace, 387-386; 9. Egypt Strikes Back: The Cypriot War and the Struggle for the Eastern Mediterranean, 386-379; 10. Preparing the Second Campaign: Engaging Greeks, 380-373 |
11. Pharnabazus and Iphicrates' Egyptian Campaign, 37312. Court Politics and the Collapse of the Third Campaign, 372-365; 13. Egyptian Strategy Shifts: The Genesis of Tachos' Great Offensive, 364-361; 14. Tachos: Campaign and Collapse, 360-359; 15. Persian Counterattack, 359?; 16. Artaxerxes III: King and Commander, 358-350; 17. Loss and Recovery of the Middle Territory, 350-345; 18. Persian Success, 344-342; 19. From Artaxerxes III to Alexander III, 342-332; 20. East, West, and Far West after the Persians: The Long View; Appendix A. Kings of Egypt and Persia |
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Appendix B. Timeline/Chronological ChartList of Abbreviations; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; X |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises- including any aimed at Greece- this conflict has never been reconstructed in any detailed and comprehensive way. Thus, Trouble in the West adds tremendously to our understanding of Persian imperial affairs. At the same time, it dramatically revises our understanding of eastern Mediterranean and Aegean affairs by linking Persian deali |
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