Is War Diminishing by Frederick Adams Woods audiobook. Genre: history Written in 1915 in the shadow of the First World War, Is War Diminishing? asks a blunt question that still unsettles modern readers: are nations actually becoming more peaceful, or do we merely change the shape and scale of conflict? Historian Frederick Adams Woods, working with Alexander Baltzly, approaches the problem with an unusually quantitative mindset for its era. Instead of relying on moral arguments or political hopes, they assemble a long view of European history, tracking the prevalence of war from 1450 up to their present day. Country by country, the authors count years of warfare among the major European powers, compare long stretches of peace to recurring eruptions of violence, and present their findings through clear summaries and charts. Along the way, they confront the difficulties of definition (what counts as a war, and for whom?), the distortions of incomplete records, and the temptation to read progress into any temporary lull. The result is a bracing, data-driven challenge to easy optimism, and an invitation to think harder about the forces that sustain war and the conditions that might truly restrain it. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:10:36) Chapter 01 (00:46:34) Chapter 02 (00:53:55) Chapter 03 (01:06:50) Chapter 04 (01:13:40) Chapter 05 (01:35:42) Chapter 06 (01:45:18) Chapter 07 (01:50:07) Chapter 08 (01:59:30) Chapter 09 (02:06:15) Chapter 10 (02:21:08) Chapter 11 (02:31:42) Chapter 12 (02:42:04) Chapter 13 (02:53:33) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices