The invention of peace : reflections on war and international order /
Howard, Michael, 1922-2019
The invention of peace : reflections on war and international order / Michael Howard. - 113 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: Great Britain : Profile Books, 2000.
Introduction -- Priests and princes: 800-1789 -- Peoples and nations: 1789-1918 -- Idealists and ideologues: 1918-89 -- Tomahawks and kalashnikovs: ad 2000.
"Throughout history the overwhelming majority of human societies have taken war for granted and made it the basis for their legal and social structures. Not until the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century did war come to be regarded as an unmitigated evil and one that could be abolished by rational social organization, and only after the massive slaughter of the two world wars did this become the declared objective of civilized states. Nevertheless war in one form or another continues unabated. In this book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so."--BOOK JACKET.
0300088663 9780300088663 1861973268 9781861973269
00043599
Peace
Security, International
Disarmament
CB481 / .H68 2000
327.172
The invention of peace : reflections on war and international order / Michael Howard. - 113 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: Great Britain : Profile Books, 2000.
Introduction -- Priests and princes: 800-1789 -- Peoples and nations: 1789-1918 -- Idealists and ideologues: 1918-89 -- Tomahawks and kalashnikovs: ad 2000.
"Throughout history the overwhelming majority of human societies have taken war for granted and made it the basis for their legal and social structures. Not until the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century did war come to be regarded as an unmitigated evil and one that could be abolished by rational social organization, and only after the massive slaughter of the two world wars did this become the declared objective of civilized states. Nevertheless war in one form or another continues unabated. In this book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so."--BOOK JACKET.
0300088663 9780300088663 1861973268 9781861973269
00043599
Peace
Security, International
Disarmament
CB481 / .H68 2000
327.172