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The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854

The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854

Caedel, Martin

Hardcover

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0198226748
ISBN13: 9780198226741
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: May 23 1996
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.47
Height: 1.64 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.53
Language: English
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 counbtry to allow peace thinking 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.

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