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020			_a9781849465007 (hbk.) : _c50.00 GBP
100	1		_aGILLESPIE Alexander
245			_aCauses of war / _cAlexander Gillespie.
260			_aOxford, United Kingdom : _bHart Publishing, _c2013.
300			_aix, 273 pages ; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis 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.
440			_aCauses of war; vol.1.
650			_aWAR _xCAUSES
650			_aWAR (INTERNATIONAL LAW) _xHISTORY
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