In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of …
GD Middleton - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2012 - Springer
The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and …
Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological …
La conquête militaire romaine de la péninsule Ibérique a été fréquemment considérée comme exemplaire, mais également comme caractéristique des limites de l'impérialisme de …
SA Zarghami, J Dumrak - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, the fragility of modern Logistics Networks (LNs) has been exposed by unexpected events with extreme impacts outside the realm of regular …
'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire-the peoples they considered'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources …
The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called'backward steppe'. It has been argued …
A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. Offers a broad survey of the Punic …
To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two flourishing Mediterranean …