The Specter of Peace : Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic.
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- 9789004371682
- 973.2
- E18.82 .S643 2018
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.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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