The Causes of War: Volume III: 1400 CE to 1650 CE (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781849466462)

This is the third volume of a projected five-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, Gillespie 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.

Author: Alexander Gillespie
ISBN-10: 1849466467
ISBN-13: 9781849466462
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.70w x 1.00d