PART II - A HISTORY OF THE MODERN STATES' SYSTEM TO 1900
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2010
Summary
‘The complexity, in many ways praiseworthy, with which the history of an age now has to be composed, naturally causes everyone to worry as to how our later descendants are going to cope with the burden of history which, after some centuries, we are going to leave them. Without doubt they will care for the history of the distant past, for which the documents will long since have perished, only from the standpoint which interests them, namely, what nations and governments have contributed to a world order or how they have damaged it.’
immanuel kant, Idea for a Universal History, 1784- Type
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- Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States , pp. 151 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1962