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Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine worldsAddresses a neglected aspect in the study of ancient warfareAnalyses views generated in different ancient cultures about the theory and practice of generalshipBrings together the latest research on generalship from a wide spectrum of academic expertsContains discussion of the theory and practice of generalship in other contemporary cultures including Persia, Arabia and ChinaThis volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century AD. Across this broad span, it explores a range of ideas on how to be a successful general, showing how the art of generalship – a profession that has been occupied variously by the political elite, the mercenary soldier and the eunuch – evolved and adapted to shifting notions of how a good military leader should act.Highlighting developments and continuities in this age-old profession across the Graeco-Roman world, this volume brings together the latest research on generalship from both established and new voices. The chapters examine both ideals of generalship and specific examples of generals, considering the principles underpinning the roles they played and the qualities desired in them. They discuss in particular the intersection between military and political roles, the addresses delivered by generals to their troops, the virtue of courage and the commemoration of victory as well as defeat. In addition, contributors consider cross-cultural comparisons of generalship, with specific chapters devoted to Persian, Arab and Chinese views

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. 'Tradition' and the Peasantry: On the Modern Historiography of Rural Germany -- 2. Peasants and Markets: The Background to the Agrarian Reforms in Feudal Prussia East of the Elbe, 1760-1807 -- 3. The Junkers' Faithless Servants: Peasant Insubordination and the Breakdown of Serfdom in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1763-1811 -- 4. The Rural Proletariat: The Everyday Life of Rural Labourers in the Magdeburg Region, 1830-1880 -- 5. Farmers and Factory Workers: Rural Society in Imperial Germany: The Example of Maudach -- 6. Peasants and Farmers' Maids: Female Farm Servants in Bavaria at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 7. The Sins of the Fathers: Village Society and Social Control in the Weimar Republic -- 8. Peasants, Poverty and Population: Economic and Political Factors in the Family Structure of the Working Village People in the Magdeburg Region, 1900-39 -- 9. Peasant Customs and Social Structure: Rural Marriage Festivals in the Magdeburg Region in the 1920s -- 10. Peasants and Others: The Historical Contours of Village Class Society -- 11. The Rules of the Village: On the Cultural History of the Peasant World in the Last 150 Years -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

1. 'Tradition' and the peasantry : on the modern historiography of rural Germany / Ian Farr -- 2. Peasants and markets : the background to the Agrarian reforms in feudal Prussia East of the Elbe, 1760-1807 / Hartmut Harnisch -- 3. The junkers' faithless servants : peasant insubordination and the breakdown of serfdom in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1763-1811 / William W. Hagen -- 4. The rural proletariat : the everyday life of rural labourers in the Magdeburg region, 1830-1880 / Hainer Plaul -- 5. Farmers and factory workers : rural society in imperial Germany : the example of Maudach / Cathleen S. Catt -- 6. Peasants and farmers' maids : female farm servants in Bavaria at the end of the nineteenth century / Regina Schulte -- 7. The sins of the fathers : village society and social control in the Weimar Republic / Gerhard Wilke -- 8. Peasants, poverty and population : economic and political factors in the family structure of the working village people in the Magdeburg region, 1900-39 / Gisela Griepentrog -- 9. Peasant customs and social structure : rural marriage festivals in the Magdeburg region in the 1920s / Christel Heinrich -- 10. Peasants and others : the historical contours of village class society / Wolfgang Kaschuba -- 11. The rules of the village : on the cultural history of the peasant world in the last 150 years / Utz Jeggle.

1. The German family : a critical survey of the current state of historical research / Robert Lee -- 2. Family and role-division : the polarisation of sexual stereotypes in the nineteenth century -- an aspect of the dissociation of work and family life / Karin Hausen -- 3. Family and 'modernisation' : the peasant family and social change in nineteenth-century Bavaria / Robert Lee -- 4. Family and household : social structures in a German village between the two world wars / Gerhard Wilke and Kurt Wagner -- 5. Women, family and death : excess mortality of women in child-bearing age in four communities in nineteenth-century Germany / Arthur E. Imhof -- 6. The family life-cycle : a study of factory workers in nineteenth-century Wurttemberg / Heilwig Schomerus -- 7. Overcrowding and family life : working-class families and the housing crisis in late nineteenth-century Duisburg / James H. Jackson -- 8. Women's work and the family : women garment workers in Berlin and Hamburg before the First World War / Robyn Dasey -- 9. Politics and the family : social democracy and the working-class family in theory and practice before 1914 / Richard J. Evans.

"Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century. Subjects covered include the peculiarities of Nazi Germany, the comparison between Hitler and Mussolini, eugenics and racial theory, genocide and defeat, memory and heroism, prostitution and women's rights, the Anglo-German relationship and the politics of culture in modern Germany"--

Introduction / Clifford Ando -- By the hand of a robber : states, mercenaries, and bandits in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson -- The limits of nationalism : brigandage : piracy and mercenary service in fourth century BCE Athens / Matthew Trundle -- Piracy and pseudo piracy in classical Syracuse : financial replenishment through outsourcing, sacking temples and forced migrations / Richard Evans -- Terra cognita sed vacua? (Re-)appropriating territory through Hellenistic city foundations / Alex McAuley -- The colonisation of Pontiae (313 BC), piracy, and the nature of Rome's maritime expansion before the First Punic War / Roman Roth -- Campaigning against pirate mercenaries : a very Roman strategy? / Aaron Beek -- Pirating pastoral poverty : poetics in Tibullus 1.1 / Stephen Harrison -- The revolt of the boukoloi, class, and contemporary fiction in Achilles Tatius's Leucippe and Clitophon / John Hilton -- "Bad girls" : collective violence by women and the case of the Circumcellions in Roman North Africa / Martine de Marre -- Piracy, plunder and the legacy of archaeological research in North Africa / Eve Macdonald and Sandra Bingham -- Spoils of empire : Rider Haggard's appropriation of the katabasis motif in King Solomon's Mines / Liliana Tappeiner -- Epilogue / Richard Evans and Martine De Marre.

Sammelband mit zwischen 2001 und 2013 veröffentlichten Aufsätzen und Rezensionen des renommierten, mehrfach preisgekrönten britischen Historikers, der in Deutschland mit einer 3-bändigen Gesamtdarstellung der NS-Zeit bekannt geworden ist. Rezension: Der erst im Vorwort als solcher erkennbare Sammelband fasst 28 Aufsätze und Rezensionen zusammen, die der renommierte britische Historiker, der zuletzt mit einer 3-bändigen Gesamtdarstellung der NS-Zeit hervorgetreten ist (2004, 2006, 2009), zwischen 2001 und 2013 vorwiegend im englischsprachigen Ausland veröffentlicht hat. In wenigen Fällen durch Anmerkungen und kurze Nachworte ergänzt, spiegeln sie die Entwicklung der Geschichtswissenschaft nach der Jahrtausendwende, die verstärkt die Nachwirkungen des Nationalsozialismus, den internationalen Kontext und wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte in den Mittelpunkt gerückt hat. Obwohl systematisch gegliedert, beginnend mit Aspekten der Vorgeschichte, über Innen-, Wirtschafts- und Aussenpolitik bis hin zu Krieg und Völkermord, bietet die Sammlung naturgemä ︢keinen systematischen Zugang zur NS-Zeit, sondern dokumentiert, nicht ohne Überschneidungen, eine Schaffensphase des mehrfach preisgekrönten Historikers, dessen Werk wesentliche Entwicklungen der Historiografie spiegelt. Mit Kreuzregister. (3)