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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Causes of War: Volume IV: 1650 - 1800 by Dr Alexander Gillespie
This series of volumes charts the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day. This volume covers the years 1650 to 1800. Written by a leading international lawyer the books use as their principal materials the documentary history of international law largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. In departing from the various theories put forward by historians anthropologists and psychologists the author offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war focusing on the broader settings of politics religion migrations and empire-building.