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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Baumgartner, Frederic J. (1945-....)
Titre(s) : Declaring war in early modern Europe [Texte imprimé] / Frederic J. Baumgartner
Publication : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Description matérielle : 206 p. ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198) and index
"A noteworthy development is recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations
of war. Many Americans argue that the result of this development has been to abrogate
the US Constitution, which delegates the authority to declare war to the Congress.
The goal of this book is to examine the history of declaring war in the early modern
era up to the time when the Constitution was written in order to understand what the
framers of the Constitution had in mind when gave the power to declare war to Congress.
In the late middle ages, formal declarations of war were highly ritualistic acts,
but by the early seventeenth century, they had changed into a practice whereby an
ambassador presented a printed declaration to an enemy king. Key issues include determining
how and when the medieval practices of declaring war gave way to the more modern ones,
and the extent to which American framers accepted or rejected the practice of their
era. While the debate over recent congressional resolutions authorizing use of the
armed forces overseas has generated many publications, the wider history of declaring
war has been far less a topic of study, and the early modern era has been all but
ignored. This book's primary sources include ambassadorial reports, especially those
from Venetian ambassadors, declarations of war, published works by noted contemporary
thinkers, and several early modern literary works that depict the high drama of declaring
war"--
Sujet(s) : Déclaration de guerre -- Histoire
Déclaration de guerre -- Europe -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230114128 (hardback). - ISBN 0230114121 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426623470
Notice n° :
FRBNF42662347
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