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War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination - From Classical Antiquity to the Age of Reason (Hardcover)
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War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination - From Classical Antiquity to the Age of Reason (Hardcover)
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This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history
has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets
and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a
comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing
amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work
of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at
war and peace through the ages, from the Classical world through to
the 18th century. It considers the nature and advocacy of war and
peace both from an historical perspective but also a philosophical
one, particularly looking at how universal peace, which began as a
personal philosophy, became over the centuries a political
philosophy that underpins much of modern society's attitudes
towards warfare and militarism. Roger Manning begins his journey
through history by looking at the Greek martial ethos and
philosophical concepts of peace and war in the ancient world;
moving through the Roman empire's military advances, he explores
the concepts of war and peace in the medieval world and the
Renaissance, with the writing of Machiavelli and Erasmus; finally,
his account of the search for a science of peace in the 17th and
18th centuries brings the book to its conclusion.
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