The Causes of War

Name: The Causes of War
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781509928842
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Volume II: 1000 CE to 1400 CE

By Dr Alexander Gillespie

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The Causes of War by Dr Alexander Gillespie is the second volume in a five-part series exploring the origins of war from 3000 BCE to the present. Drawing on documentary international law, including treaties and negotiations, it examines why millions have engaged in conflict over millennia. Gillespie challenges traditional theories by presenting a unique classification focused on political, religious, migratory, and imperial factors as the main contexts shaping war in early human civilisation.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in history, international law, and the complex factors behind warfare. It suits scholars, students, and those seeking a detailed, academic approach to understanding war's causes across ancient and modern times.

Description

This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day. Written by a leading international lawyer, The Causes of War uses 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 aim to demonstrate why millions of people, over thousands of years, killed each other. Departing from the various theories put forward by historians, anthropologists, and psychologists, Dr Alexander Gillespie 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509928842

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hart Publishing

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 280

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Dr Alexander Gillespie Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Military History Non-Fiction

About the Author

Alexander Gillespie is Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.