Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East - Hardcover
by Rory Cox
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691171890ISBN-10:691171890UPC:9780691171890Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, MilitaryBook Topic:Ancient, MedievalSize:9.40 x 6.20 x 2.00 inchesWeight:2.2531Product ID:SCGG420WVJ
Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East
Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition. In this...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691171890ISBN-10:691171890UPC:9780691171890Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, MilitaryBook Topic:Ancient, MedievalSize:9.40 x 6.20 x 2.00 inchesWeight:2.2531Product ID:SCGG420WVJ
Rory Cox is a senior lecturer in history at the University of St Andrews, where he is also an associate research fellow at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has published extensively on the history of ethics and violence, and is the author of John Wyclif on War and Peace.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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