War in international thought
"This is a book about the meaning of war in international thought from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Such a topic lends itself to many approaches, with many possible results. One rather conventional way to approach this topic would be to investigate how the concept of war has been used by different authors in different historical contexts, and for what kind of ideological and political purposes. From such an inquiry we would hopefully be able to make inferences about the…
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- Full title :War in international thought / Jens Bartelson.
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"This is a book about the meaning of war in international thought from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Such a topic lends itself to many approaches, with many possible results. One rather conventional way to approach this topic would be to investigate how the concept of war has been used by different authors in different historical contexts, and for what kind of ideological and political purposes. From such an inquiry we would hopefully be able to make inferences about the changing functions of the concept of war across time and space, and from these perhaps distill more general insights about the meaning of war in international thought"--
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- Publication Date:2018.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 241 pages .)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108297707, 1108297706, 1108321321, 9781108321327
- oclc:on1020871401
- LC Classification:HM554
- Dewey Decimal:172/.42
Table of Contents
Preface -- Towards a historical ontology of war -- The state of war -- Fortifying the state -- Wars of law, laws of war -- Conclusion: the return of the repressed? -- Bibliography.
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