Laws of War
About this Collection
The founder of the modern idea that the destructiveness of war could be limited by law, Hugo Grotius, wrote his great work during the Thirty Years War. It was taken up again during the Enlightenment by theorists like Vattel and reached its pinnacle in the 20th century with the Hague and Geneva Conventions.
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War & Peace
Erasmus has the personification of Peace come down to earth to see with dismay how war ravages human societies (1521)
War & Peace
Grotius on Moderation in Despoiling the Country of one’s Enemies (1625)
War & Peace
Hugo Grotius on civil right being derived from civil power
War & Peace
Thomas Hodgskin on the Suffering of those who had been Impressed or Conscripted into the despotism of the British Navy (1813)