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Das Lexikon des Hesychios von Alexandreia (um 500 n. Chr.), mit uber 50.000 Glossen das reichhaltigste aller antiken Lexika, ermoglicht der Nachwelt einen Zugang zu den gewaltigen Sammlungen der hellenistischen und kaiserzeitlichen Lexikographen. Es ist damit zugleich eine wichtige Quelle fur die moderne griechische Lexikographie und die vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft.

Eine modernen Anspruchen genugende Textbasis legte erst Kurt Latte mit dem Beginn seiner Epoche machenden Ausgabe vor, die auf neuer Kollation der einzigen Handschrift ebenso wie (erstmals) auf der...

This comprehensive survey of Chinese military history is the only book in English to span the significant years from 900 1795. Peter Lorge questions current theories on China s relationship to war, and argues that war was the most important tool used by the Chinese in building and maintaining their empire.

Emphasizing the relationship between the military and politics, chapters are organised around specific military events and, Lorge argues, the strength of territorial claims and political impact of each dynasty were determined by their military capacity.

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The first two volumes of the Correspondance g?n?rale d'Helv?tius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France.

Claude-Adrian Helv?tius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne...

This fifth and final volume completes the critical edition of the letters of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helv?tius (1715-1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758), and of his wife, n?e Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), who ran her own salon in Auteuil after her husband's death. The essential component in this last volume is the detailed index an indispensable instrument for researchers who wish to make full use of the correspondence. The volume also includes four new letters discovered since the appearance of the first four volumes, errata, additions and...

Democracy is a fine political system, but an expensive economic venture. Political parties and election campaigns cost money. Where does the money come from and at what sacrifice? Issues connected with political finance are significant but often neglected aspects of the process of democratization. Funding Democratization examines how money and politics interact in emerging democracies. The contributors investigate the funding of political parties in early North America, financial uncertainties of party formation in European countries, funding of democratization in new democracies,...

This is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helv?tius (1715-1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758). Featuring the correspondence of Mme Helv?tius, n?e Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to Helv?tius discovered since the publication of the first three volumes.

Mme Helv?tius enjoyed an active widowhood, welcoming to her salon in Auteuil a group of intellectuals who came to be known as the Id?ologues. A close friend of...

Called "the preeminent survey of American military history" by Russell F. Weigley, America's foremost military historian, For the Common Defense is an essential contribution to the field of military history. This carefully researched third edition provides the most complete and current history of United States defense policy and military institutions and the conduct of America's wars. Without diminishing the value of its earlier editions,...