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  title info:
    title: Mastering the West
    sub title: Rome and Carthage at war
  name:
    name part: Hoyos, B. D. (B. Dexter)
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivalled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civilizations seemed inevitable and yet to the Romans and Carthaginians at the time hostilities first erupted seemingly out of nowhere, with what were expected to be inconsequential results. Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the western Mediterranean, while treating a full range of themes, including the antagonists' military, naval, economic and demographic resources, the political structures of both republics and the postwar impact of the conflicts on the participants and victims. The narrative also investigates questions of leadership and the contributions and mistakes of leaders like Hannibal, Fabius the Delayer, Scipio Africanus, Masinissa and Scipio Aemilianus. Dexter Hoyos, a leading expert of the period, treats the two great powers evenly, without neglecting the important roles played by Syracuse, Macedon and especially Numidia. Written with verve in a clear, accessible style, with a range of illustrations and newly-commissioned maps, Mastering the West will be the most reliable and engaging narrative of this pivotal era in ancient history.
  table of contents: PART ONE. ROME AND CARTHAGE : 264 BC -- Two Republics -- Fighting the Enemy -- PART TWO. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR AND AFTERMATH : 264-218 -- Sicily and its Seas, 264-257 -- Africa and after : 256-249 -- Stalemate and Checkmate : 249-241 -- Between the Wars : 241-218 -- PART THREE. THE SECOND PUNIC WAR : 218-201 -- Hannibal's Invasion -- Hannibal's Zenith -- The War beyond Italy -- Carthage in retreat : 210-206 -- Scipio and Roman victory -- PART FOUR. THE LAST CONFLICT -- Rome, Masinissa, and Carthage -- The Triumph of Rome -- Appendix -- THE SOURCES -- Polybius -- Livy -- Other writers -- Coins and inscriptions.
  note: Dexter Hoyos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: f-ti---
    geographic code: mm-----
  subject:
    topic: Punic wars
  subject:
    topic: Command of troops
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    geographic: Mediterranean Region
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    geographic: Mediterranean Region
    topic: History
    temporal: To 476
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    geographic: Carthage (Extinct city)
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / General
  classification: DG242 .H69 2015
  classification: 937/.04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ancient warfare and civilization
  identifier: 9780199860104 (hardcover acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0199860106 (hardcover acid-free paper)
  identifier: 2014015832
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140422
    record change date: 20151206125949.0
    record identifier: in00003433043