# The Causes of War - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : the causes of war, volume 1: 3000 bce to 1000 ce, présentation de l'éditeur this is the first volume of a projected four-volume series charting the causes ...

## Parution

*Volume 1: 3000 BCE to 1000 CE*

- **ISBN** : 978-1-849-46500-7
- **Éditeur** : Hart

## Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur


This is the first volume of a projected four-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, slayed each other. In departing from the various theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, 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 for the first four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.
 



Table Of Contents


1. Introduction 1. The Conversation on Sunday Afternoon 2. Utopia 3. Facts 4. Casus Belli in Practice II. Empires 1. Introduction 2. The Formation of Empires 3. The Middle East 4. Greece 5. Rome 6. The Formation of Modern Europe 7. Conclusion III. Migratory Peoples Introduction Egypt India China Rome Further Migratory Peoples in the West to 1000 Byzantium Northern Europe Conclusion IV. Politics Introduction The Near East, Egypt, China and India The Greeks and the Wars for Freedom Rome and the Political Question The Contribution of Christianity The Christian Emperors of the Roman Empire The Return to Monarchy in the West Islam and the Political Question Conclusion V. Religion Introduction Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Israel and Persia China and India Greece and RomeChristianity Orthodoxy, Heresy and Intolerance The Rise of the Papacy and the East–West Tension The Religious Question between Rome and Persia Islam Islam and Christianity in the East Islam and Christianity in the West Conclusion VI. Conclusion


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2013-10-30

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