LEADER 03892nam 2200649 450 001 9910820141303321 005 20191015111955.0 010 $a1-78831-897-8 010 $a1-78673-528-8 010 $a9781788318976$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9781786725288$belectronic book 010 $a1786725282$belectronic book 010 $a9781786735287$belectronic book 010 $a1786735288$belectronic book 010 $a1788318978$belectronic book 024 7 $a10.5040/9781788318976 035 $a(CKB)4100000007818304 035 $a(OCoLC)1074342591$z(OCoLC)1090922134$z(OCoLC)1166366692$z(OCoLC)1167718924$z(OCoLC)1179007370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5741660 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat88318976 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781788318976 035 $a(OCoLC)1090922134 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007818304 100 $a20191015e20192018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWarriors of Anatolia $ea concise history of the Hittites /$fTrevor Bryce 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,$d2018. 210 2$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 1 $a1-350-14078-3 311 1 $a1-78831-237-6 311 08$aPrint version: Bryce, Trevor, 1940- Warriors of Anatolia. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018 9781788312370 (DLC) 2018048039 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRediscovering a lost world -- How do the Hittites tell us about themselves? The dawn of the Hittite era -- The legacy of an ailing king -- "Now bloodshed has become common" -- The setting for an empire -- Building an empire -- Lion or pussycat? -- From near extinction to the threshold of international supremacy -- The greatest kingdom of them all -- Intermediaries of the gods: the great kings of Hatti -- King by default -- Health, hygiene and healing -- Justice and the commoner. 330 $a"The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be explained, against seemingly insuperable odds? In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their authority for centuries"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aI.B. Tauris Classical Studies & Archaeology 2016-2018 606 $aHittites 606 $aMilitary history, Ancient 606 $2Middle Eastern history 607 $aMiddle East$xHistory, Military 615 0$aHittites. 615 0$aMilitary history, Ancient. 676 $a939/.3 700 $aBryce$b Trevor$f1940-$0297741 712 02$aBloomsbury (Firm), 801 0$bLBSOR/DLC 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820141303321 996 $aWarriors of Anatolia$94086421 997 $aUNINA