The Causes of War

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Free Press, 1988 - Military history, Modern - 325 pages
The peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality.

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Contents

The Peace that Passeth Understanding
3
Paradise is a Bazaar
18
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War
35
Copyright

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Geoffrey Blainey
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Geoffrey Blainey
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About the author (1988)

Geoffrey Blainey is an Australian historian, born 1930 in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He taught at the University of Melbourne and held chairs in economic history and history. He taught at Harvard University as a visiting professor of Australian Studies. He has written over 36 and is the author of The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia for which he was a joint winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian history.

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TitleThe Causes of War
AuthorGeoffrey Blainey
Edition3, reprint
PublisherFree Press, 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized28 Jan 2010
ISBN0029035929, 9780029035924
Length325 pages
  
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