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A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from
ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over
2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of
peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace
in the Enlightenment, explores peace in the period from 1648 to
1815. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History
of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace,
peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender,
religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History
of Peace in the Enlightenment is the most authoritative and
comprehensive survey available on peace in the long eighteenth
century.
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from
ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over
2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of
peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace
in the Enlightenment, explores peace in the period from 1648 to
1815. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History
of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace,
peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender,
religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History
of Peace in the Enlightenment is the most authoritative and
comprehensive survey available on peace in the long eighteenth
century.
A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea
of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to
engineer lasting peace. Political peace in Europe has historically
been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the
eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of
lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification. Bridging
intellectual and political history, Ghervas draws on the work of
philosophers from Abbé de Saint-Pierre, who wrote an early
eighteenth-century plan for perpetual peace, to Rousseau and Kant,
as well as statesmen such as Tsar Alexander I, Woodrow Wilson,
Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, and Mikhail Gorbachev. She
locates five major conflicts since 1700 that spurred such
visionaries to promote systems of peace in Europe: the War of the
Spanish Succession, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II,
and the Cold War. Each moment generated a “spirit” of peace
among monarchs, diplomats, democratic leaders, and ordinary
citizens. The engineers of peace progressively constructed
mechanisms and institutions designed to prevent future wars.
Arguing for continuities from the ideals of the Enlightenment,
through the nineteenth-century Concert of Nations, to the
institutions of the European Union and beyond, Conquering Peace
illustrates how peace as a value shaped the idea of a unified
Europe long before the EU came into being. Today the EU is widely
criticized as an obstacle to sovereignty and for its democratic
deficit. Seen in the long-range perspective of the history of
peacemaking, however, this European society of states emerges as
something else entirely: a step in the quest for a less violent
world.
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