A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook model of A Political Background of the Globe by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan.

In three thousand many years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was incompatible during at least 50 % of its life time. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The imagine peace has been universal in the annals of humanity. Why have we so rarely been able to accomplish it?

In A Politics History of about A Political History of the World: 3 Thousand Years of War and Tranquility the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, through the Iron Age for this, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and individuals as well as the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of background, the publication illuminates the pushes shaping globe politics from Old Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana towards the rise of Islam, the Peacefulness of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations.

This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Provides trade fostered serenity? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does environmental switch affect stability? Is definitely battle a universal sin of power? At the same time when the threat of nuclear battle looms again, that is a much-needed history intended for college students of international politics, and anyone looking for a background on current events.