TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard,Michael
TI  - The invention of peace: reflections on war and international order 
SN  - 0300088663
AV  - CB481 .H68 2000
U1  - 327.172 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Peace
KW  - Security, International
KW  - Disarmament
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -