La guerre. Traduction de l'ouvrage russe, la guerre future aux points de vue technique, economique et politique.

BLOCH, Jean de [Jan Gotlib] (1836-1902)

Published by Paris, Imprimerie Paul Dupont [volume 1], Guillaumin [volume 2-6] 1898

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-1900. 6 volumes. With numerous ills, plans, tables, etc. in the text and on (partly folding) plates. Contemp. half cloth, not quite uniform, marbled sides, a few backs stained, bookplate to front paste-downs, some minor imperfections. First French edition. Originally published in Russian as Budushchaya voina i yeyo ekonomicheskie posledstviya' the previous year and translated into German in 1899. A much abridged English edition Is war now impossible?' was also published in 1899.The author was a Polish-Russian banker and entrepreneur who much contributed to the development of the Russian railway system. Though born Jewish and converted to Calvinism he was an ardent opponent of the antisemitic policies of the Tsarist government and sympathized with Zionism. His exhaustive work on the technical, economic and political aspects of war and his untiring crusade for peace has gained him the nickname the father of contemporary pacifism'. He was widely regarded as the spirituel father of the first Peace Conference at The Hague in 1899.The work is constituted as follows: 1. Considerations generales sur le tir [etc]. 2. La guerre sur le continent. 3. La guerre navale. 4. Les troubles economiques et les pertes materielles que determinera la guerre future. 5. Les efforts tendant a supprimer la guerre, les causes des differends politiques, les consequences des pertes. 6. Conclusions generales. Le systeme du militarisme. Pour et contre la possibilite de resoudre les conflits entre etats europeens. L'organisation d'un tribunal international. Conclusion.*P. van den Dungen, A bibliography of the pacifist writings of Jean de Bloch, 1977.'. Seller Inventory # 36914

Bibliographic Details

Title: La guerre. Traduction de l'ouvrage russe, la...

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Paul Dupont [volume 1], Guillaumin [volume 2-6] 1898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition