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The causes of war. Volume III, 1400 CE to 1650 CE /

"This is the third 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 negotiat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gillespie, Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 7
  • 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
  • 6. The Colonies in North America
  • 7. Slavery
  • 8. Conclusion
  • XI. The Muslim World
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Inter-Family Wars and Coups
  • 3. Inter-Islam Wars: Sunni v Sunni
  • 4. Inter-Islam Wars: Sunni v Shia
  • 5. Muslim and Christian Wars
  • 6. Conclusion
  • XII. Asia
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Ming and Their Neighbours
  • 3. The Imjin War
  • 4. The Qing
  • 5. Conclusion
  • XIII. Conclusion