The Origins of War Prevention
The British Peace Movement and International Relations 1730-1854
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 1996
- ISBN 9780198226741
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages600 pages
- Size 243x163x39 mm
- Weight 1115 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This original book makes a stimulating contribution to international relations and British political history. It fills a major gap in the historiography of British politics and is a stimulating contribution to theorizing about international relations.
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This book makes an original contribution to international relations and British politics. It identifies for the first time the dominant pre-modern theory of international relations, which fatalistically assumed that war was beyond human control. It then shows how this theory was undermined from the 1730s onwards, with the consequence that a debate began about how best to prevent war in which a vocal minority argued that war as an institution for settling disputes could be abolished. Britain led the way in this repudiation of fatalism and exploration of pacific alternatives: it produced the world's first peace movement (which appeared in the mid-1790s as a response to the French wars) and the first enduring national peace association (the Peace Society, founded in 1816 and active for nearly a century); and it was the first country to allow peace thinking (for example, as expounded by Richard Cobden) to enter its political mainstream. This book, the first to make use of the Peace Society's records, fills a major gap in the historiography of British politics.
Martin Caedel has done us a great favour by this meticulous study of the Peace Society ... and its antecedents ... an excellent study of those who started to organise English peace activity, nearly two hundred years ago.
