A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace
Jonathan Holslag
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Detalhes do Produto
- Editora: Penguin
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- Ano: 2019
- ISBN: 9780241395561
- Número de páginas: 656
- Capa: Brochada
Sinopse
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…
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