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9781849465007


Parution : 10/2013
Editeur : Hart
ISBN : 978-1-8494-6500-7
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The Causes of War

Volume 1: 3000 BCE to 1000 CE

Alexander Gillespie

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 Rome
Christianity 
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

284 pages.