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Author: Azar Gat (Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security, Department of Political Science, University of Tel Aviv)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 4.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.268kg
ISBN: 9780199236633
ISBN 10: 0199236631
Pages: 840
Publication Date: 27 March 2008
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
War in Human Civilization is indeed the ambitious, sweeping book that the author set out to write. Both its scope and scale are impressive as is the wide range of sources and disciplines whose theories and methods are brought to bear on the 'riddle' of war.... The coverage and the deft weaving together of so many central theories on human behavior make this a book worth examining. --Michael S. Neilberg, Journal of Social History<br> A work of extraordinary scope and formidable erudition.... Gat definitively unravels the riddle of civilization and war. --Professor Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University<br> Gat's book is a rich undertaking definitely well worth reading and pondering. --William R. Thompson, The International History Review<br>
<br> War in Human Civilization is indeed the ambitious, sweeping book that the author set out to write. Both its scope and scale are impressive as is the wide range of sources and disciplines whose theories and methods are brought to bear on the 'riddle' of war.... The coverage and the deft weaving together of so many central theories on human behavior make this a book worth examining. --Michael S. Neilberg, Journal of Social History<br> A work of extraordinary scope and formidable erudition.... Gat definitively unravels the riddle of civilization and war. --Professor Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University<br> Gat's book is a rich undertaking definitely well worth reading and pondering. --William R. Thompson, The International History Review<br>UNEDITED UK REVIEW: An immensely ambitious work covering not only history but archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, demography and economics, to name but a few... its weight of learning is borne aloft by the author's enthusiasm for his subje
Author Information
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely in the field of military strategy and thought, including A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War, also published by Oxford University Press, and has taught and lectured at Freiburg, Oxford, Yale, Ohio State, and Georgetown universities.
