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Essays on War and Peace
This List Is By:
Liberty Fund Staff
Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
We have gathered here essays and shorter pieces on key ideas concerning war and peace and important thinkers who have increased our understanding of the nature of individual liberty. Please visit the War & Peace Subject Area in the Library for a full list of war and peace titles.
[Image above: A frontispiece from a 1901 edition of Hugo Grotius, The Law of War and Peace showing the reconciliation of war and peace under the aegis of the law.]
John Bright’s Speeches on War
John Bright, Selected Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Bright M.P. On Public Questions, introduction by Joseph Sturge (London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907). Chapter: INTRODUCTION
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1658/50277 on 2009-10-28
The text is in the public domain.
Clausewitz: War as Politics by Other Means
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, trans. Col. J.J. Graham. New and Revised edition with Introduction and Notes by Col. F.N. Maude, in Three Volumes (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & C., 1918). Vol. 1. Chapter: CHAPTER I: WHAT IS WAR?
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2050/145825 on 2009-10-28
The text is in the public domain.
Milton Friedman on a Volunteer Army
Ralph Raico, New Individualist Review, editor-in-chief Ralph Raico, introduction by Milton Friedman (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981). Chapter: MILTON FRIEDMAN, Why Not a Volunteer Army?
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2136/195469 on 2009-10-28
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Grotius and the Freedom of the Seas
Hugo Grotius, The Free Sea, trans. Richard Hakluyt, with William Welwod’s Critiuqe and Grotius’s Reply, ed. David Armitage (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004). Chapter: introduction
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/859/66149 on 2009-10-28
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Grotius and the Laws of War 1
Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace, edited and with an Introduction by Richard Tuck, from the Edition by Jean Barbeyrac (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005). Vol. 1. Chapter: INTRODUCTION
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1425/138585 on 2009-10-28
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Grotius and the Laws of War 2
Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace, including the Law of Nature and of Nations, translated from the Original Latin of Grotius, with Notes and Illustrations from Political and Legal Writers, by A.C. Campbell, A.M. with an Introduction by David J. Hill (New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1901). Chapter: INTRODUCTION
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/553/90737 on 2009-10-28
The text is in the public domain.
Grotius on Prize and Booty
Hugo Grotius, Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty, ed. and with an Introduction by Martine Julia van Ittersum (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006). Chapter: INTRODUCTION
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1718/77214 on 2009-10-28
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Jesus on War
John Cecil Cadoux, The Early Christian Attitude to War: A Contribution to the History of Christian Ethics, with a Foreword by the Rev. W.E. Orchard, D.D. (London: Headly Bros, 1919). Chapter: PART I: THE TEACHING OF JESUS
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/648/39891 on 2009-10-28
The text is in the public domain.
Mises, Keynes, and the Versailles Treaty
Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time, trans. Leland B. Yeager, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006). Chapter: TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1819/109461 on 2009-10-28
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Nisbet, The Prevalence of War
Robert A. Nisbet, The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). Chapter: I: The Prevalence of War
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/876/77065 on 2009-10-28
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Politics and the Army in the English Civil War 1
Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (Camden Society, 1901). 4 vols. Chapter: PREFACE.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1984/127407 on 2009-10-28
The text is in the public domain.
Politics and the Army in the English Civil War 2
Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (Camden Society, 1894). 4 vols. Chapter: PREFACE.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1985/127519 on 2009-10-28
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Politics and the Army in the English Civil War 3
Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899). 4 vols. Chapter: PREFACE
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1986/127741 on 2009-10-28
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Politics and the Army in the English Civil War 4
Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901). 4 vols. Chapter: PREFACE
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1987/127831 on 2009-10-28
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Rousseau on War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe and The State of War, by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. by C. E. Vaughan. (London: Constable and Co., 1917). Chapter: INTRODUCTION
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1010/144255 on 2009-10-28
The text is in the public domain.