TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stark,Rodney
TI  - God's battalions: the case for the Crusades 
SN  - 9780061582615
AV  - D157 STA 
U1  - D157 STA 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperOne
KW  - Crusades
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Religion and civilization
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Greedy barbarians in armor? -- Muslim invaders -- Christendom strikes back -- Western "ignorance" versus Eastern "culture" -- Pilgrimage and persecution -- Enlisting crusaders -- Going East -- Bloody victories -- The crusader kingdoms -- The struggle to defend the kingdoms -- Crusades against Egypt -- Mission abandoned
N2  - In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. Instead, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to Muslim terrorist aggession
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2008051976-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2008051976-d.html
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