16 December 2020

BOOK: Alexander GILLESPIE, The Causes of War: Volume IV: 1650-1800 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020). ISBN 9781509912179, 85.50 GBP

 

(Source: Bloomsbury)

Bloomsbury is publishing a new volume in its “causes of war” book series.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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 four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexander Gillespie is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

 

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