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Episode: Is War Diminishing by Frederick Adams Woods ~ Full Audiobook [history]
Description: Is War Diminishing by Frederick Adams Woods audiobook. Genre: historyWritten in 1915 in the shadow of the First World War, Is War Diminishing? asks a blunt question that still unsettles modern readers: are nations actually becoming more peaceful, or do we merely change the shape and scale of conflict? Historian Frederick Adams Woods, working with Alexander Baltzly, approaches the problem with an unusually quantitative mindset for its era. Instead of relying on moral arguments or political hopes, they assemble a long view of European history, tracking the prevalence of war from 1450 up to their present...