A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire

Herausgeber: Sharp, Ingrid

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Age of Empire, explores peace in the period from 1800 to 1920. 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 Age of Empire is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the long 19th century.

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Produktdetails

• The Cultural Histories Series
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 245mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781350385917
• ISBN-10: 1350385913
• Artikelnr.: 67134622

Autorenporträt

Ingrid Sharp is Senior Lecturer in German and Director of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the co-editor of Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists (with Matthew Stibbe; 2009), The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919 (with Alison Fell; 2007) and Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns (with Jane Jordan; 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Introduction
1. Definitions of Peace
2. Human Nature, Peace, and War
3. Peace, War, and Gender
4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion
5. Representations of Peace
6. Peace as Integration
7. Peace Movements
8. Peace, Security and Deterrence
Notes
Bibliography
Index