Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

Michael Eliot Howard
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 elegantly written book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so.

Is war in some sense still a necessary element in international order? Are war and peace in fact complementary? Does not peace itself breed the conditions that will ultimately lead to war? And if nuclear weapons have made war ultimately suicidal for mankind, what can be done about it? Having devoted half a century largely to studying these questions, Michael Howard offers us his reflections. Unless they can be answered, he notes, the twenty-first century is unlikely to be any more peaceful than the centuries that preceded it.
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
February 08, 2001
ISBN
0300088663
ISBN 13
9780300088663

The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

Michael Eliot Howard
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 elegantly written book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so.

Is war in some sense still a necessary element in international order? Are war and peace in fact complementary? Does not peace itself breed the conditions that will ultimately lead to war? And if nuclear weapons have made war ultimately suicidal for mankind, what can be done about it? Having devoted half a century largely to studying these questions, Michael Howard offers us his reflections. Unless they can be answered, he notes, the twenty-first century is unlikely to be any more peaceful than the centuries that preceded it.
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
February 08, 2001
ISBN
0300088663
ISBN 13
9780300088663

More books from Michael Eliot Howard

On War

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The First World War: A Very Short Introduction

3.8/5 ( ratings)

War in European History

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Franco-Prussian War

4/5 ( ratings)

On War

4.1/5 ( ratings)

On War

3.7/5 ( ratings)

On War

3.9/5 ( ratings)

War and the Liberal Conscience

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Causes of War, Revised and Enlarged Edition

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Oxford History of Twentieth Century

3.6/5 ( ratings)

On War

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Lessons of History

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Fighting The War On Terror: A Counterinsurgency Strategy

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Making of Israel's Army

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Assault Division: A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Two Historians in Technology and War

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Otherwise Occupied: Letters Home from the Ruins of Nazi Germany

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Empires, Nations and Wars (The Lessons of History)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader