Description
The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the book includes contributions from authors working in fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, art, sociology, and Peace Studies. The book crosses the divide between historical inquiry and Peace Studies scholarship, with traditional aspects of peace promotion sitting alongside expansive analyses of peace through other lenses, including specific regional investigations of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Divided thematically into six parts that are loosely chronological in structure, the book offers a broad overview of peace issues such as peacebuilding, state building, and/or conflict resolution in individual countries or regions, and indicates the unique challenges of achieving peace from a range of perspectives.
Global in scope and supported by regional and temporal case studies, the volume is an essential resource for educators, activists, and policymakers involved in promoting peace and curbing violence as well as students and scholars of Peace Studies, history, and their related fields.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Disciplines in dispute—history, peace studies, and the pursuit of peace
CHRISTIAN PHILIP PETERSON, MICHAEL LOADENTHAL, AND WILLIAM M. KNOBLAUCH
PART I
Paradigms of peace
1 Philosophies of peace, 1750–1865
CASEY RENTMEESTER
2 Peace in an age of modernity, 1865–1914
CHARLES F. HOWLETT AND CHRISTIAN PHILIP PETERSON
3 Liberal internationalism and the search for international peace
WAQAR ZAIDI
4 Structural conflict, systemic violence, and peace: A guided reading
MICHAEL LOADENTHAL
PART II
Icons of peace
5 Three apostles of non-violence: An introduction to the religious thinking of Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan
ANNA HAMLING
6 The evolution of Tolstoyan pacifism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900–1937
IRINA GORDEEVA
7 One man’s peace: Influences on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non-violent philosophy
KEVIN E. GRIMM
8 “Sane ideas which may yet save the world from further conflict”: Bertrand Russell’s and Julian Huxley’s lecture tours in early Cold War Australia
JO GRANT
9 Black Power and the anti-Vietnam War movement
SIMON HALL
10 Ibrahim Rugova and his peaceful resistance for independence of Kosovo
JUSUF SALIH
11 Nelson Mandela and the decolonial paradigm of peace
SABELO J. NDLOVU-GATSHENI
PART III
Religious and cultural dimensions of peace
12 Losing my religion: The effects of World War I on pacifism in the Stone-Campbell Movement
JOSHUA W. JEFFERY
13 From Father Berrigan to Black Lives Matter: Literary representations of peace activism since 1945
CAROLYN DEKKER
14 Film depictions of children as modern anti-war crusaders
BENITA BLESSING
15 Apocalyptic dissenters: Seventh-day Adventists and peace activism in the nineteenth century
ABEL RIOS
16 Improvisatory peace activism? Graffiti during and after Egypt’s most recent revolution
ASIF MAJID
PART IV
Antinuclear peace activism
17 The nuclear freeze: Transnational pursuit of positive peace
DARIO FAZZI
18 Pacific concerns: Nuclear weapons and the peace movement in Australia, 1960–1967
KYLE HARVEY
19 Andrei Sakharov on nuclear war and nuclear peace
JAY BERGMAN
20 Scientists as peace activists, 1975–1991
PAUL RUBINSON
PART V
Non-violence and the nation state
21 Non-violence in Ireland’s independence
PATRICK VAN INWEGEN
22 Colombia: A long journey to peace
SAUL M. RODRIGUEZ
23 The anti-war movement in Lebanon, 1975–1990
MAGNUS DØLERUD
24 Israel and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
GALIA GOLAN
25 Peace process without the people: Sidelining popular struggle in Palestine
MICHAEL J. CARPENTER
26 A farewell to arms? Evolving peace in the Taiwan Strait
TONY TAI-TING LIU
27 Understanding violent conflict in Africa: Trends, causes, and prospects
LEILA DEMAREST AND ARNIM LANGER
PART VI
Modern challenges: Transnational and international peace efforts
28 The International Peace Campaign, China, and transnational activism at the outset of World War II
KE REN
29 The anti-Vietnam War movement: International activism and the search for world peace
CHRIS DIXON AND JON PICCINI
30 Belgian peace demonstrations after the invasion of Iraq: A sociological perspective
IONE CORBEEL AND PAULINE KETELAARS
31 An activist in exile: Janet Mondlane and the Mozambican liberation movement
JOANNA TAGUE
32 Feminist perspectives in the implementation of UN Resolution 1325
JUDITH OLESON
33 Unincluded: How women are passed over in peace processes and how data fails to capture their efforts
NATALIE W. ROMERI-LEWIS, SARAH F. BROWN, AND BENJAMIN T. WHITE
34 What is peace, how have our concepts of peace evolved, and what is a holistic vision of peace for the twenty-first century?
LINDA GROFF
Suggested readings
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