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The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition
Robert Drews
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Paperback. The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century bc with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. This title rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1QSM; HBG; HBLA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691025919
SKU
V9780691025919
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About Robert Drews
Robert Drews is Professor of Classics and History at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East (Princeton).
Reviews for The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition
"[The End of the Bronze Age] provides a concise overview of the problem and the present state of our knowledge... Drews has produced a thought-provoking work with an intriguing thesis, informative and thorough in its scholarship, sound and imaginative in its arguments."
J. P. Karras, The Journal of Military History "[Drews] has differentiated between evidence and speculation so that those who ... Read more
J. P. Karras, The Journal of Military History "[Drews] has differentiated between evidence and speculation so that those who ... Read more