War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998

Keegan, John

ISBN 10: 0091777941 / ISBN 13: 9780091777944

Edité par Hutchinson, London, 1998

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8vo. Pp xv + 87. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Text paper shows light tanning.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998
• Éditeur: Hutchinson, London
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0091777941
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780091777944
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Very good
• État de la jaquette: very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History

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Synopsis

The subject of the 1998 Reith Lectures is war - its origins, history and future. Keegan focuses on significant themes, among them, the impact of war on our century and the forms it has taken, from the all-out conflicts of industrialized states to the deadly assaults of religious fundamentalists.

Présentation de l'éditeur

War has afflicted the life of mankind in this century as it has done in no other. The First World War killed ten million people, the Second fifty million, and wars since 1945 have killed millions more. Nuclear weapons, a product of the Second World War, have the potentiality not only to destroy lives on a scale greater than any yet explained or even imagined but to obliterate organised society itself. Because the story of war is intertwined with that of mankind from the earliest recorded times, no short book can encompass its whole history. John Keegan therefore concentrates in significant themes: the impact of war on our century and the forms it has taken; the origin of war in human nature and history; the adoption and use of war by states as an instrument of policy; the experience of war by individuals and human groups and its effect on their existence; and, finally, the future of war, particularly the question whether there can now be an end to it.