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The Remnants of War

Paperback • 2007 • English

The Remnants of War

By John Mueller

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"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution is in pronounced decline, abandoned as attitudes toward it have changed, roughly following the pattern by which the ancient and formidable institution of slavery became discredited and then mostly ...Show more

History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)
Society and Social Sciences
Society and culture: general

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9780801473876

Published year

2007

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English

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The Remnants of War

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Paperback

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