Overview

Logistics is a central concern for military strategists, but the study of logistics in the past entails far more than merely military aspects. The study of resources and their production, distribution and consumption in pre-modern societies, of road-networks and communications, and of transportation, is an essential precondition, so that the study of logistics is also the study of pre-industrial social, economic and spatial organisation. This volume presents a series of papers dealing with the methodological, technical and historical issues associated with the study of logistics in all its aspects, and in particular demonstrates the value of modern computer-modelling and of integrating archaeological, historical and environmental research techniques and agendas into a common project.

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Author:   John Haldon
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   36
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9789004147690

ISBN 10:   9004147691
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   29 November 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Note from the Publisher Foreword List of Contributors Introduction. Why model logistical systems?, John Haldon 1. Who's in command here? The digital basis of historical, military logistic, Vincent Gaffney 2. Network analysis and logistics: applied topology, Malcolm Wagstaff 3. The Tiber Valley project: archaeology, comparative survey and history, Helen Patterson 4. Palaeoecology and landscape reconstruction in the eastern Mediterranean: theory and practice, Warren Eastwood 5. Land use and settlement: theoretical approaches, Johannes Koder 6. Predicting communication routes, Gino Bellavia 7. Modelling agricultural production. A methodology for predicting land use and populations, Helen Goodchild 8. Filling the gap: supporting landscape investigation, Steve Wilkes 9. Superiority of numbers: methodologies for modelling the behaviour of armies, Helen Gaffney 10. Modelling logistics: integrative technologies, Ron Yorston Conclusion, John Haldon Index

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John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History in the Department of History, Princeton University. He studied at Birmingham, Athens and Munich, and has written numerous books and articles on many aspects of late Roman and Byzantine social and institutional history and on the comparative history of pre-modern states.

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