The Causes Of War Volume Iv 16501800 Alexander Gillespie by Alexander Gillespie 9781509912179, 9781509912209, 1509912177, 1509912207 instant download after payment.

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 three thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist. By the year 1800, the contexts of ideology, nationalism and empire building were becoming dominant.