A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (A Pelican Book)

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan.

In 3,000 years of history, China has spent at least 11 centuries at war.

The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 percent of its lifetime.

Since 1776, the United States has spent over 100 years at war.

The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity.

So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism.