Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and Their Teaching Reprint edition

Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1919. xx, 227 pp. While writing this book in 1917, Phillimore anticipated the difficulties that would face diplomats at the conclusion of the First World War. Their task would be, he thought, a Congress of Vienna, a Hague Conference, and a Geneva Conference rolled into one. Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and Their Teaching, a historical analysis of treaties enacted from 1582 to 1913, was intended to provide the diplomatic community with some guidance for the future, that we should thereby acquire some explanation of the condition of Europe on the threshold of the present war, and see the position to which previous diplomatic settlements had brought us (xii).