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The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854
Martin Ceadel
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hardcover. This original book makes a stimulating contribution to international relations and British political history. It fills a major gap in the historiography of British politics and is a stimulating contribution to theorizing about international relations. Num Pages: 600 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; GTJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1115.
This book makes an original contribution to international relations and British politics. It identifies for the first time the dominant pre-modern theory of international relations, which fatalistically assumed that war was beyond human control. It then shows how this theory was undermined from the 1730s onwards, with the consequence that a debate began about how best to prevent war in which a vocal minority argued that war as an institution for settling disputes could be abolished. Britain led the way in this repudiation of fatalism and exploration of pacific alternatives: it produced the world's first peace movement (which appeared in ... Read more
This book makes an original contribution to international relations and British politics. It identifies for the first time the dominant pre-modern theory of international relations, which fatalistically assumed that war was beyond human control. It then shows how this theory was undermined from the 1730s onwards, with the consequence that a debate began about how best to prevent war in which a vocal minority argued that war as an institution for settling disputes could be abolished. Britain led the way in this repudiation of fatalism and exploration of pacific alternatives: it produced the world's first peace movement (which appeared in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198226741
SKU
V9780198226741
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Reviews for The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854
Martin Caedel has done us a great favour by this meticulous study of the Peace Society ... and its antecedents ... an excellent study of those who started to organise English peace activity, nearly two hundred years ago.
Challenge, Vol. XXXVII no.3, May/June 1997
... an important and impressive piece of research ...
New Routes, Vol.2 No.2 ... Read more
Challenge, Vol. XXXVII no.3, May/June 1997
... an important and impressive piece of research ...
New Routes, Vol.2 No.2 ... Read more