{"product_id":"the-origins-of-war-prevention-martin-caedel-9780198226741","title":"The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854","description":"This book makes an original contribution to international relations and British politics. It identifies for the first time the dominant pre-modern theory of international relations, which fatalistically assumed that war was beyond human control. It then shows how this theory was undermined from the 1730s onwards, with the consequence that a debate began about how best to prevent war in which a vocal minority argued that war as an institution for settling disputes could be abolished. Britain led the way in this repudiation of fatalism and exploration of pacific alternatives: it produced the world's first peace movement (which appeared in the mid-1790s as a response to the French wars) and the first enduring national peace association (the Peace Society, founded in 1816 and active for nearly a century); and it was the first counbtry to allow peace thinking to enter its political mainstream. This book, the first to make use of the Peace Society's records, fills a major gap in the historiography of British politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Caedel,Martin Ceadel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198226748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198226741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 6.45w x 1.64d","brand":"Martin Caedel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520230473983,"sku":"9780198226741","price":245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42f4271c-f060-47cd-8d59-777d8df003c8.jpg?v=1762884332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-origins-of-war-prevention-martin-caedel-9780198226741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}