Publication

2018 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004371118
  • ISBN-109004371117
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018028190
  • OCLC Control Number1028780747
  • Better World Books9789004371118
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCE18.82.S64 2018
  • LCCE18.82 .S64 2018

Description

Specter of Peace' advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of "right ordering" that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. The historicization of peace, the authors argue, can sharpen our understanding of violence, empire, and the early modern struggle for order and harmony in the colonial Americas and Atlantic World.

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