War and Peace

About this Collection

Wars can be fought to preserve freedom, and they can also be tragically destructive of it. The way that human societies have made war and sought peace throughout our existence provides a useful study for considering how best to keep and protect the freedoms we have, and how to gain the ones we want.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the War and Peace section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• America’s Second Crusade (William Henry Chamberlin)
• The Art of War (Neville trans.) (Niccolo Machiavelli)
• The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon (Charles Wilkins)
• BOLL 2: Vicesimus Knox, “Universal Peace” (1793) (Vicesimus Knox)
• BOLL 3: Ludwig von Mises, “Economics of War” (1949) (Ludwig von Mises)
• BOLL 11: W.G. Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain” (1898) (William Graham Sumner)
• BOLL 31: Samuel anoints Saul the First King of Israel (c. 1,000 B.C.) (Samuel)
• BOLL 38: Daniel Webster, “Speech on the Draft” (1814) (Daniel Webster)
• The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education (John Stuart Mill)
• A Collection of Tracts, 2 vols. (1751) (Thomas Gordon)
• A Collection of Tracts, vol. I (Thomas Gordon)
• Commerce Defended (1808) (James Mill)
• The Complaint of Peace (Desiderius Erasmus)
• Daniel Webster on the Draft: Text of a Speech delivered in Congress, December 9, 1814 (Daniel Webster)
• A Discourse of Standing Armies (1722) (Thomas Gordon)
• The Early Christian Attitude to War (John Cecil Cadoux)
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace (John Maynard Keynes)
• England, Ireland, and America (Richard Cobden)
• The Enhanced Edition of The Rights of War and Peace (1625) (Hugo Grotius)
• An Essay on Naval Discipline (Thomas Hodgskin)
• Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects (Josiah Tucker)
• Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School (Francis W. Hirst)
• Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (Frank Chodorov)
• The Hague Peace Conferences concerning the Laws and Usages of War (A Pearce Higgins)
• Imperialism: A Study (John A. Hobson)