The Rights of War and Peace, Book I

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Author(s): Hugo Grotius
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Year: 2005

Language: English
Commentary: More best quality: added original cover.

Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace Book I (1625)
Front Matter
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction, p. ix
A Note on the Text, p. xxxv
Acknowledgements, p. xxxix
Title Page, p. 1
The Contents, p. 3
Book I, p. 3
Book II, p. 7
Book III, p. 38
The Life of Hugo Grotius, p. 59
To His Most Christian Majesty Lewis XIII, p. 71
The Preliminary Discourse, p. 75
Book I
Chapter I. What War is, and what Right is. p. 133
Chapter II. Whether ’tis ever Lawful to make War. p. 180
Chapter III. The Division of War into Publick and Private. An Explication of the supreme Power. p. 240
Chapter IV. Of a War made by Subjects against their Superiors. p. 336
Chapter V. Who may lawfully make War. p. 384
The End of the first Book. p. 387