Goode, Michael. <br/><br/>
The Specter of Peace :  Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (293 pages) 
 - Early American History Series ;  v.9 .
 - Early American History Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- General Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Relevance of Peace in Early American History -- 1 Imperial Peace and Restraints in the Dutch-Iberian Wars for Brazil, 1624-1654 -- 2 "In Peace with all, or at least in Warre with None": Tributary Subjects and the Negotiation of Political Subordination in Greater Virginia, 1676-1730 -- 3 Violent Restraint: Keeping Peace in British America and India -- 4 Peace, Imperial War, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World -- 5 Nonviolence, Positive Peace, and American Pre-Revolutionary Protest, 1765-1775 -- 6 "Avoiding the Fate of Haiti": Negotiating Peace in Late-Colonial Venezuela -- 7 The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815-1837 -- Afterword: Peace and the End(s) of American History -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Specter of Peace challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. Histories of peacemaking, the volume argues, sharpens our understanding of colonialism and empire. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004371682 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence-America-History.<br/>Peace-building-America-History.<br/>America-History-To 1810.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E18.82 .S643 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.2