The invention of peace : reflections on war and international order / Michael Howard.

By:

Howard, Michael, 1922-2019 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000Description: 113 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0300088663
9780300088663
1861973268
9781861973269

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

327.172 21

LOC classification:

CB481 .H68 2000

Contents:

Introduction -- Priests and princes: 800-1789 -- Peoples and nations: 1789-1918 -- Idealists and ideologues: 1918-89 -- Tomahawks and kalashnikovs: ad 2000.

Review: "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.

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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.

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