David Kaiser looks at four hundred years of modern European history to find the political causes of war. In four distinct periods he shows how war became a natural function of politics. Kaiser argues that the first era of modern war occured because monarchs challenged the power and independence of the European aristocracy. Conflicts dragged on interminably because monarchs lacked the military, economic, and political resources necessary for success. In our own century, during two world wars, European powers tried to create self-sufficient economic empires and to force homogeneous national states out of the multinational territories of central and eastern Europe.
- ISBN10 1850432465
- ISBN13 9781850432463
- Publish Date 31 December 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 August 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint I.B. Tauris
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English