Carey, Brian Todd
1967 -
Loveland, CO, 80538
Travelingprof@aol.com
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Biographical and Professional Information

Brian Todd Carey was born in Cheyenne, raised in Casper, and had an idyllic childhood in Wyoming chasing jackrabbits, catching horny toads, and dreaming of knights in shining armor in faraway lands.

Today, he is an Assistant Professor of History and Military Studies at the American Public University System and a history lecturer at Front Range Community College in Ft. Collins, Colorado. He has served as vice-president of the Rocky Mountain Regional World History Association and faculty advisor to the Asian Studies Program Board at Colorado State University. He has also served as a member of a six-professor scientific committee who oversaw the veracity of articles submitted for publication for two French-language bi-monthly military history and science periodicals. Histoire Mondiale des Conflits highlighted different battles, campaigns and martial technologies throughout the history of warfare, while Histoire Mondiale des Conflits-Thematique concentrated on one military subject per issue. He is the author of over thirty articles on heroic agenda military history and the theory and practice of airpower and has also contributed seventeen articles on ancient, classical and medieval Eurasian warfare to the twenty-one volume ABC-CLIO-World History Encyclopedia (forthcoming 2009).

Professor Carey was the recipient of American Public University System’s 2007 Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Since 1999 Professor Carey has taken over 250 students and community participants in Colorado to Turkey and Greece (1999), Scotland, England, and Wales (2000), Italy (2001), Greece and Turkey (2003), Germany (2004), Spain and Morocco (2005), France and Spain (2006) India and Egypt (2007), and Italy and Greece (2008).

Genres

History
Nonfiction

Titles

Warfare in the Ancient World (2005). Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN: 1844151735. Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millenium BC and the fall of Rome. Through a exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems - heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry - focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organization created by the Romans.

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Warfare in the Medieval World (2006). Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN: 1844153398. Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years War. Through an exploration of thirty-three selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems-heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry - focusing on the evolution of shock and missile combat. This is the second part of an ambitious two-volume study of the subject. The first volume, Warfare in the Ancient World, examined the evolution of warfare from the Bronze Age to the highly organized armies of the Greeks and the Romans.

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Hannibal's Last Battle : Zama and the Fall of Carthage (2007). Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN: 1844156354 and (2008) Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing. ISBN: 978-1594160752. At Zama, in what is now Tunisia in 202 BC, the armies of two empires clashed. The Romans under Scipio Africanus won a bloody, decisive victory over Hannibal's Carthaginians. Scipio's victory signalled a shift in the balance of power in the ancient world. Brian Todd Carey's compelling reconstruction of the battle, and of the gruelling war that led up to it, gives a fascinating insight into the Carthaginian and Roman methods of waging war. And it offers a critical assessment of the contrasting qualities and leadership styles of Hannibal and Scipio, the two most celebrated commanders of their age.

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