Illustrations
Introduction
1. Definitions of Peace
2. Human Nature, Peace, and War
3. Peace, War, and Gender
4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion
5. Representations of Peace
6. Peace as Integration
7. Peace Movements
8. Peace, Security and Deterrence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A thematic overview of the cultural history of peace from 1648 to 1815.
Stella Ghervas is Professor of Russian History at
Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Réinventer la
tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance
(2008). The book was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie
Française in 2009, the Xenopol Prize of the Romanian Academy in
2010, the Prize and the Merit Diploma of the Academy of Moldova in
2009; it was also shortlisted in 2009 for the Grand Prix d'Histoire
Chateaubriand (France).
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History
and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, USA.
He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of
Government, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School and
an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney,
Australia.
He is the author or editor of fourteen books, among them The
Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), which won the
Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, The Declaration of
Independence: A Global History (2007), which was chosen as a Times
Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Foundations of Modern
International Thought (2013) and (with Jo Guldi) The History
Manifesto (2014). His most recent edited works are Shakespeare and
Early Modern Political Thought (2009), also a TLS Book of the Year,
The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (2010), a
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Pacific Histories: Ocean,
Land, People(2014). His articles and essays have appeared in
journals, newspapers and collections around the world and his works
have been translated into Chinese, Danish, French, Italian,
Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
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