Peace Discourse in Europe 1900-1945

<p>This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain France Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the twentieth century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such ideas do not belong to a homogeneous tradition of thought but can be understood as a unique discourse that takes different characteristics according to the point of view of each author and of the specific historical situation.</p>