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A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (Pelican Books) by Holslag, Jonathan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? In A Political History of the World , Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations. This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Has trade fostered peace? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does envir
Who reads A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (Pelican Books)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Holslag, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd; Pelican
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241352052
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Social_sciences