Great walls and linear barriers
Spring, Peter2014
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Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China and knows of Hadrian's Wall and the other barriers lining stretches of Rome's imperial frontiers. But Peter Spring's original new study demonstrates that far from being exceptional, the building of walls and other linear defences was commonplace among the peoples and states of pre-modern era. He finds examples virtually all across the globe and analyses their forms and strategic functions.
Main title:
Great walls and linear barriers / Peter Spring.
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Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2014.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781848843776 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
240559
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