Military Diasporas (Paperback Book)

Name: Military Diasporas (Paperback Book)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups.\nThese groups not only buttressed a state or empire\u0092s military might but crucially connected, policed, and administered (parts of) realms as a transcultural and transimperial class while representing the polity\u0092s universal or at least cosmopolitan aspirations at court or on diplomatic and military missions. Case studies of foreign militaries with a focus on their diasporic elements include the Achaemenid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Roman Empire in the ancient world. These are followed by chapters on the Sassanid and Islamic occupation of Egypt, Byzantium, the Latin Aegean (Catalan Company) to Iberian Christian noblemen serving North\n\nMilitary Diasporas\nBuilding of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE)\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using R;