The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius
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"The Rights of War and Peace" by Hugo Grotius is a treatise published in 1625 that established foundational principles of international law. Writing during the Thirty Years' War, Grotius sought to create a rational legal framework governing warfare and relations between nations, based on natural law, reason, and shared customs. He argued that universal principles of justice could regulate state behavior even without a higher authority, distinguishing just causes for war from
lawful conduct during conflict. His work profoundly influenced modern international law and continues shaping debates on state sovereignty and just war theory. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645 |
|---|---|
| Author of introduction, etc. | Hill, David Jayne, 1850-1932 |
| Translator | Campbell, A. C. (Archibald Colin) |
| Title | The Rights of War and Peace |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure_belli_ac_pacis |
| Credits |
Produced by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 50.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | KZ: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: Law of nations |
| Subject | War (International law) |
| Subject | International law |
| Subject | Natural law |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 46564 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-46564-7 |
| Release Date | Aug 11, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1496 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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