War, Peace and World Orders in European History

by Hartmann, Anja V.; Heuser, Beatrice

• ISBN13: 9780203471692
• ISBN10: 0203471695
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The authors use a wide range of case studies to explore the ways in which people in different societies at different times perceived and felt about war and peace in the world around them.

Table of Contents

Introduction: methodology of this project

History and International Relations theory

War and peace in classical antiquity

Introduction

War and peace in ancient Greece

Greeks and Persians: West against East

Warfare and external relations in the middle Roman Republic

Roman-Carthaginian Relations: From co-operation to annihilation

War, peace and faith in the Middle Ages

Introduction

Byzantine concepts of war and peace

Collective identities, war and integration in the Early Middle Ages

Warfare in the Middle Ages

The crusading movement

War, peace and national identity in the Hundred Years' War

War and peace in early modern Europe

Introduction

Wars of religion: The examples of France, Spain and the Low Countries in the sixteenth century

Identities and mentalities in the Thirty Years' War

Interstate war and peace in Early Modern Europe

The era of ideological wars

Introduction

The revolutionary period, 1789 - 1802

From Volkskrieg to Vernichtungskrieg: German concepts of warfare, 1871-1935

Enemy image and identity in the Warsaw Pact

Conclusions

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