Kurt A. Raaflaub 
Peace in the Ancient World [PDF ebook] 
Concepts and Theories

الدعم

Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not.
* Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods that experienced exceptional rates of warfare
* Utilizes case studies of civilizations in China, India, Egypt, and Greece
* Complements the 2007 volume War and Peace in the Ancient World, drawing on ideas from that work and providing a more comprehensive examination

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قائمة المحتويات

Notes on Contributors vii
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Introduction 1
Kurt A. Raaflaub
1 Abhorring War, Yearning for Peace: The Quest for Peace in the Ancient World 12
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2 Concepts of Peace in Ancient Egypt 43
Susanne Bickel
3 Thinking about Peace in Ancient India 67
Johannes Bronkhorst
4 Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China 98
Robin D. S. Yates
5 Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace 122
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6 Broadening the Scope: Thinking about Peace in the Pre-Modern World 158
Hans Van Wees
Index 181

عن المؤلف

Kurt A. Raaflaub is the David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics at Brown University, Emeritus. His numerous publications include authorship or editorship of 20 scholarly books, in addition to more than 120 articles in journals and essay collections. Raaflaub is the editor of Wiley Blackwell’s Ancient World: Comparative Histories series, and is the editor of War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2006).

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