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Causes of War : Volume 1: 3000 BCE to 1000 CE /

This is the first volume of a projected three volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gillespie, Alexander (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Hart Publishing Limited, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Preliminary pages; Table of Contents; I. Introduction; 1. The Conversation of Sunday Afternoon; 2. Utopia; 3. Facts; 4. Casus Belli in Practice; II. Empires; 1. Introduction; 2. The Formation of Empires; 3. The Middle East; 4. Greece; 5. Rome; 6. The Formation of Modern Europe; 7. Conclusion; III. Migratory Peoples; 1. Introduction; 2. Egypt; 3. India; 4. China; 5. Rome; 6. Further Migratory Peoples in the West to 1000; 7. Byzantium; 8. Northern Europe; 9. Conclusion; IV. Politics; 1. Introduction; 2. The Near East, Egypt, China and India; 3. The Greeks and the Wars for Freedom.
  • 4. Rome and the Political Question5. The Contribution of Christianity; 6. The Christian Emperors of the Roman Empire; 7. The Return of the Monarchy in the West; 8. Islam and the Political Question; 9. Conclusion; V. Religion; 1. Introduction; 2. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Israel and Persia; 3. China and India; 4. Greece and Rome; 5. Christianity; 6. Orthodoxy, Heresy and Intolerance; 7. The Rise of the Papacy and the East-West Tension; 8. The Religious Question between Rome and Persia; 9. Islam; 10. Islam and Christianity in the East; 11. Islam and Christianity in the West; 12. Conclusion.