On Wars

by Michael Mann

Book Overview

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them

Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders--people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions--who undertake...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300266812
• ISBN13: 9780300266818
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"