War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy. The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in self-defence. That is why, though it may come but once in a hundred years, it must be prepared for every day. When it is too late - when the bodies lie stiff and people weep overthem - those in charge have failed in their duty. Nevertheless, in spite of the centrality of war to human history and culture, there has for long been no modern attempt to provide a replacement for the classics on war and strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, dating from the 5th or 6th century BC, and Carl von Clausewitz's On War, written in theaftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. What is needed is a modern, comprehensive, easy to read and understand theory of war for the 21st century that could serve as a replacement for these classic texts. The purpose of the present book is to provide just such a theory. Martin van Creveld was born in the Netherlands but has lived in Israel since 1950. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy, he is perhaps most well-known for his 1991 volume, The Transformation of War, which was the first to predict thedemise of conventional war and the rise of terrorism. The author of some thirty other books, which between them have been published in twenty languages, he has acted as a military consultant for several countries, appeared in hundreds of TV and radio shows, and written for, or been interviewed in, hundreds of magazines and papers all over the world.39.95139.9539.95Martin Van Creveld6C2F4C38-718B-4DE5-A909-8FEC1B6E2EBE978019878820197801987882090007115, 187.52TCHardcoverCouverture rigideB57866608engOxford University PressOxford University Press38425.423415697825.4234156212018-03-24T04:00:00ZReconstructions, Contexts, ReceptionsReading Republican OratoryP10106Arts & LettersLITCRIT01ALiterary CriticismLIT000000Criticism & TheoryBooks > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theoryhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/0198788207.jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=enhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/0198788207.jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=frhttps://www. indigo. ca/en-ca/reading-republican-oratory-reconstructions-contexts-receptions/9780198788201.htmlhttps://www. indigo. ca/fr-ca/reading-republican-oratory-reconstructions-contexts-receptions/9780198788201.htmlPublic speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding of its workings isdominated by one man, whose texts are the only examples to have survived in complete form since antiquity: Cicero. This collection of essays aims to broaden our conception of the oratory of the Roman Republic by exploring how it was practiced by individuals other than Cicero, whether major statesmen, jobbing lawyers, or, exceptionally, the wives of politicians. It focuses particularly on the surviving fragmentsof such oratory, with individual essays tackling the challenges posed both by the partial and often unreliable nature of the evidence about these other Roman orators - often known to us chiefly through the tendentious observations of Cicero himself - and the complex intersections of the writtenfragments and the oral phenomenon. Collectively, the essays are concerned with the methods by which we are able to reconstruct non-Ciceronian oratory and the exploration of new ways of interpreting this evidence to tell us about the content, context, and delivery of those speeches. They are arrangedinto two thematic Parts, the first addressing questions of reception, selection, and transmission, and the second those of reconstruction, contextualization, and interpretation: together they represent a comprehensive overview of the non-Ciceronian speeches that will be of use to all ancienthistorians, philologists, and literary classicists with an interest in the oratory of the Roman Republic. Christa Gray has been a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading since January 2016 and was previously a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators" at the University of Glasgow. She will be on research leave at the Humboldt University inBerlin until 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, working on an edition of Jerome's Vita Hilarionis. Andrea Balbo is a Lecturer at the University of Turin and also teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His research interests include | More on War, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters