Clarendon Press Oxford, 1997. Hardcover. A very good copy with blue cloth to boards and gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has faint scuff marks to the front and rear. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.51 x 0.69 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W illustrations. Includes tables and figures, abbreviations, an appendix, bibliography and an index. 234 pp.

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ISBN: 9780198149910

In this study Brian Bosworth looks at the critical period between 329 and 325 Bc, when Alexander the Great was active in Central Asia and what is now Pakistan. He documents Alexander's relations with the peoples he conquered, and addresses the question of what it meant to be on the receiving end of the conquest, drawing a bleak picture of massacre and repression. At the same time Alexander's views of empire are investigated, his attitude to his subjects, and the development of his concepts of personal divinity and universal monarchy. Analogies are thus drawn with the Spanish conquest of Mexico, which has a comparable historiographical tradition and parallels many of Alexander's dealings with his subjects. Although of concern to the specialist, this book is equally directed at the general reader interested in the history of Alexander and the morality of empire.

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