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.
- ISBN10 0061582611
- ISBN13 9780061582615
- Publish Date 1 October 2009
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 26 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins (USA)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English