Politics and War,9780674002722

Politics and War

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Edition: Large
ISBN13: 9780674002722
ISBN10: 0674002725
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-05-19
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

David Kaiser looks at four hundred years of modern European history to find the political causes of general war in four distinct periods (1559--1659, 1661--1713, 1792--1815, and 1914--1945). He shows how war became a natural function of politics, a logical consequence of contemporary political behavior. Rather than fighting simply to expand, states in each war fought for specific political and economic reasons. The book illustrates the extraordinary power of politics and war in modern Western civilization, if not in history as a whole. In a provocative and original new preface and chapter, Kaiser shows which aspects of four past areas of conflict do, and do not, seem relevant to the immediate future, and he sketches out some new possibilities for Europe.

Table of Contents

Preface, 2000 ix
Introduction 1(6)
The General Crisis of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
7(132)
The Nature of Early Modern Politics
7(18)
The Spanish Imperial Experience
25(24)
French Politics from the Wars of Religion to the Death of Mazarin
49(34)
The Thirty Years' War
83(26)
The English Civil War in European Perspective
109(26)
The Failure of the State
135(4)
The Age of Louis XIV
139(64)
The Coming of a New Era
139(2)
The France of Louis XIV
141(15)
The Maritime Powers and the Hapsburg States
156(22)
Smaller States during the Reign of Louis XIV
178(18)
The Political Achievement of the Late Seventeenth Century
196(7)
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era
203(68)
The Enlightenment and European International Politics
203(9)
Sources and Consequences of the Wars of the French Revolution
212(25)
The Napoleonic Era
237(26)
Rationalism and History
263(8)
The Era of the Two World Wars
271(144)
Europeanic Politics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
271(11)
European Imperialism and Economic Prosperity, 1880--1914
282(25)
The Impact of Nationalism and the Outbreak of the First World War
307(18)
The First World War
325(29)
The Failure of Reconstruction, 1919--1933
354(16)
Hitler and the Second World War
370(22)
Extermination and Transfer: The Nationalities Question and the Second World War
392(18)
The Origins of Totalitarianism
410(5)
Conclusion 415(8)
Afterword, 2000 423(8)
Index 431

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