{"product_id":"peace-in-the-ancient-world-isbn-9781118645123","title":"Peace in the Ancient World","description":"\u003ci\u003ePeace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories\u003c\/i\u003e conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods that experienced exceptional rates of warfare\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUtilizes case studies of civilizations in China, India, Egypt, and Greece\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComplements the 2007 volume \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e, drawing on ideas from that work and providing a more comprehensive examination\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Abhorring War, Yearning for Peace: The Quest for Peace in the Ancient World 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Concepts of Peace in Ancient Egypt 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusanne Bickel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Thinking about Peace in Ancient India 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohannes Bronkhorst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin D. S. Yates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Broadening the Scope: Thinking about Peace in the Pre-Modern World 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHans Van Wees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 181\u003c\/p\u003e \"Considering how under-studied ancient peace is compared with conflict, this work is a welcome and important contribution to an increasingly topical subject; the issues addressed concern scholars not only in peace, but in international relations, state doctrines, philosophical schools and historiography, which provides the book with the benefit of a wide readership. By allowing for cultural comparisons, the book allows for a wider engagement concerning the issues that are usually omitted in political discussions of antiquity.... Raaflaub and the other scholars deserve credit for bringing this research gap to the forefront....\" \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Blog\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2006). \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories\u003c\/i\u003e conducts a comparative investigation into why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace, while others did not. The volume discusses the possibility that concepts of peace were most likely to develop in regions and periods which experienced higher rates of warfare than usual.\u003c\/p\u003e Focusing on case studies from China, India, Egypt, and Greece, an international group of renowned scholars specifically and systematically explore the ways and reasons through which these societies did or did not produce public discourse, specific concepts, and theories of peace. The scholarship in this volume draws on themes from \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2007), building out a more comprehensive picture of ancient concepts of peace and the factors that influenced societies to develop these conceptualizations. ","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989757346021,"sku":"NP9781118645123","price":100.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118645123.jpg?v=1761785370","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/peace-in-the-ancient-world-isbn-9781118645123","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}