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This is the fifth volume in a series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day,written by a leading international lawyer.While contextualised in the conflicts and patterns of the period, this work, as drawn directly from the treatiesand the negotiations which led up to them, shows what made both war and peace. The period covered inthis volume, 1800 to 1850, brings this series into the start of the modern world.From the Napoleonic Wars through to the international mechanisms that followed, the first efforts at globalcooperation to maintain peace between the major powers were unique. So too, the spread of colonialism, theexpansion of the United States, the weakening of the Ottoman Empire, and the disintegration and reforming of South America. Each of these external actions that were often linked to war, were mirrored by changes within societies, as the values each society fought for often became just as contentious within countries, as they were between them.

Contents -- I -- Introduction -- 1. The Conversation on Sunday Afternoon -- 2. Utopia -- 3. Facts -- 4. Casus Belli in Practice -- 5. This Volume -- II -- Crowns, Dynasty and Territory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Hundred Years" War -- 3. The Wars of the Roses -- 4. The Wars for the Expansion of France -- 5. The Italian Wars -- 6. Conclusion -- III -- Religious Wars in Europe: The Beginning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Absolute Power of the Pope -- 3. The Hussite Wars -- 4. Albert II, Frederick III and Maximilian I -- 5. Martin Luther -- 6. The Peasants" War -- 7. The Influence of Luther -- 8. War in Germany -- 9. The Peace of Augsburg -- 10. Conclusion -- IV -- Religion and Power in England -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Henry VIII -- 3. Edward VI -- 4. Mary Tudor -- 5. Elizabeth I -- 6. James I/VI -- 7. Conclusion -- V -- The Wars of Religion in France -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Huguenots -- 3. Conclusion -- VI -- The Rise of the Dutch Republic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Legacy of Autonomy -- 3. William of Orange -- 4. The Act of Abjuration -- 5. Philip III and the Twelve Years" Truce -- 6. Conclusion -- VII -- The Culmination: The Thirty Years" War -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Irony -- 3. Rudolf II -- 4. The Rebellion in Bohemia -- 5. Frederick V -- 6. Containing the War -- 7. The Expanding War: Denmark -- 8. The Expanding War: Sweden -- 9. The Expanding War: France -- 10. The Peace of Westphalia -- 11. Rethinking War: Crucé, Sully and Grotius -- 12. Conclusion -- VIII -- The English Civil War -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Charles I -- 3. The First Civil War -- 4. The Second Civil War -- 5. Conclusion -- IX -- Eastern Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Poland and Lithuania -- 3. Russia -- 4. Conclusion -- X -- The New World -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Precedents -- 3. The New World -- 4. The Requirement -- 5. England and the New World.

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development. Alexander Gillespie sees the problem as multi-faceted: a three legged stool of economic, social, and environmental conundrums have stalled the quest for the long term viability of both our species and the ecosystems in which we reside. Gillespie moves from the low life expectancy, excessive deforestation, and wetland drainage of the medieval period, through the species loss, coal burning, free trade, and poor waste management of the 17th and 18th centuries, and to the more recent concerns of climate change, unsustainable fisheries, and chemical pollutants. By delivering a comprehensive examination of human survival over the past millennium, Gillespie illustrates that the challenges we face are not new - that we now have the means to counter them, is

"This is the second volume of a projected five-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, slew 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 during the first four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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