Name: The Causes of War: Volume IV: 1650 - 1800
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781509944606
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Author: Alexander Gillespie
ISBN: 9781509944606

The Causes of War: Volume IV: 1650 - 1800

By Alexander Gillespie

Hart Publishing June 2022

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ISBN-13: 9781509944606
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: June 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This is the fourth volume of a projected six-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of years, slew each other. In departing from the various theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, the author offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. The Glorious Revolution

III. The Wars of Louis XIV

IV. The Interregnum

V. The War of Austrian Succession

VI. The Seven Years War

VII. The War of American Independence

VIII. The French Revolution

IX. Slavery

X. The Wars of North and Eastern Europe

XI. Religion

XII. The Muslim Territories

XIII. China and its Neighbours

XIV. Grand Plans for Peace

XV. Conclusion