Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt write by Christelle Fischer-Bovet. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.
Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt
Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt write by Christelle Fischer-Bovet. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest led to the development of an ethnically more integrated society. A new tripartite division of Ptolemaic history challenges the idea of gradual decline, and emphasizes the reshaping of military structures that took place between c.220 and c.160 BC in response to changes in the nature of warfare, mobilization and demobilization, and financial constraints. An investigation of the socio-economic role played by soldiers permits a reassessment of the cleruchic system and shows how soldiers' associations generated interethnic group solidarity. By integrating Egyptian evidence, Christelle Fischer-Bovet also demonstrates that the connection between the army and local temples offered new ways for Greeks and Egyptians to interact.
The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 Bc
The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 Bc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 Bc write by Paul Johstono. This book was released on 2020-12-19. The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 Bc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of their legitimacy from military activity. As an Egyptian dynasty, they derived much of their real wealth and power from maintaining a secure hold on their new homeland. As lords of a far-flung empire, they maintained much of their authority through garrisons and the threat of military action. To achieve this they devoted much of their activity to the development and maintenance of a large army and navy.This work focuses on the period of the first four Ptolemies, from the acquisition of Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great to the great battle of Raphia more than a century later. It offers a study of the Ptolemaic army as an institution, and of its military operations, both reconstructed through a wide range of ancient sources, from histories to documentary papyri and inscriptions to archaeological finds. It examines the reasons for Ptolemaic successes and failures, the causes and nature of military change and reform, and the particular details of the Ptolemaic army's soldier classes, unit organization, equipment, tactics, and the Ptolemaic state's strategy to compile a military history of the golden age of one of the classical world's significant forces.
The Ancient Egyptian Economy
The Ancient Egyptian Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Egyptian Economy write by Brian Muhs. This book was released on 2016-08-02. The Ancient Egyptian Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of the Sea write by . This book was released on 2019-10-07. Empires of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
