MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01760nam a22003018a 4500
001 2009011799
003 DLC
005 20090326134217.0
008 090318s2009 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009011799
020 $a9780674035195 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $amm-----
050 00 $aU163$b.L86 2009
082 00 $a355/.033549500902$222
100 1 $aLuttwak, Edward.
245 14 $aThe grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire /$cEdward N. Luttwak.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0911
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy -- Attila and the crisis of empire -- The emergence of the new strategy -- pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods -- Envoys -- Religion and statecraft -- The uses of imperial prestige -- Dynastic marriages -- The geography of power -- Bulghars and Bulgarians -- The Muslim Arabs and Turks -- pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war -- The classical inheritance -- The strategikon of Maurikios -- After the strategikon -- Leo VI and naval warfare -- The tenth-century military renaissance -- Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia -- Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI -- Glossary.
651 0 $aByzantine Empire$xMilitary policy.
650 0 $aStrategy$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aMilitary art and science$zByzantine Empire$xHistory.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory$yTo 1500.
651 0 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory, Military.
651 0 $aByzantine Empire$xForeign relations.