The Oxford Handbook of Peace History

Herausgeber: Howlett, Charles; Hostetter, David L; Buffton, Deborah D; Peterson, Christian Philip

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Peace History offers a comprehensive analysis of peace history from ancient times to the present day. With contributions from forty-four scholars based all over the world, the Handbook provides researchers, students, and instructors a timely examination of the global dimensions of peace work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 175mm x 61mm
• Gewicht: 1724g
• ISBN-13: 9780197549087
• ISBN-10: 019754908X
• Artikelnr.: 67863537

Autorenporträt

Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus of Education, Molloy University. He is a recipient of the Peace History Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and Molloy College Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award. His latest book with Seth Kershner and Scott Harding, Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education, published in July 2022. Christian Philip Peterson received his PhD in history from Ohio University and teaches at Ferris State University (MI-USA). Along with winning several teaching awards, he has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West (2012). He also served as co-editor for The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 (2018). Deborah D. Buffton is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where she taught World, French, and Chinese History as well as courses on Peace and War and on Nonviolent Resistance Movements. She has served previously as President of the Peace History Society and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has published articles on women and war, propaganda, and the ways that peace and war are memorialized. David L. Hostetter is the author of Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics; co-editor of Congress Investigates: A Documented History; and has published many academic articles, newspaper commentaries, and encyclopedia entries. He is a graduate of Juniata College where he majored in Peace and Conflict Studies, and he earned his PhD in history from the University of Maryland College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Lawrence S. Wittner
* Chapter 1. Introduction: The Search for Global Peace: Concepts and
Currents in Twenty-First Century Peace History Scholarship
* Christian Philip Peterson, Charles F. Howlett, Deborah D. Buffton,
and David L Hostetter
* Part 1. TOWARD A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PEACE, ANCIENT TIME TO 1500 CE
* Chapter 2. Ancient Egyptian Peace Traditions
* Susanne Bickel
* Chapter 3. Peace in Ancient Greece
* Jennifer T. Roberts
* Chapter 4. Ancient Rome and the Quest for Peace
* Richard D. Weigel
* Chapter 5. Discourses and Debates on Peacemaking in Chinese History
* Kam-por Yu
* Chapter 6. The Idea of Peace during the European "Middle Ages"
* Ben Lowe
* Part II. PEACE IN AN AGE OF EMPIRES, 1500 TO 1914 CE
* Chapter 7. The Search for Peace in Europe: 1500-1914
* Renee A. Bricker and Michael Proulx
* Chapter 8. African Peace Traditions and Resistance to Colonial Rule
* Jo Tague
* Chapter 9. Modern East Asia and Peace: Pacification and Harmony in
Imperialist Times
* Gerry Iguchi
* Chapter 10. The Idea of Peace in North America from Precontact to
1780
* Daniel Barr
* Chapter 11. US Efforts to Promote Peace in the Nineteenth Century
* Margot Minardi
* Chapter 12. Latin America and the Idea of Peace
* Juan Pablo Scarfi
* Part III. FROM SARAJEVO TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE PURSUIT OF
PEACE IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL CONFLICT
* Chapter 13. Defining Struggles: Peace Activism in the United States,
1914 to 2023
* Charles F. Howlett and David Hostetter
* Chapter 14. European Peace Movements Since 1914
* Michael Clinton
* Chapter 15. The Inter-American Quest for Peace and Justice
* Roger Peace
* Chapter 16. Pacification in Asia since the End of the Cold War
* David Brenner
* Chapter 17. Muslim Nonviolent Civil Resistance in Modern World
History
* Juan Cole
* Chapter 18. The Ongoing Quest for Marginal Peace in the Arab World
* Aisha Mershani
* Chapter 19. India and Pakistan: An Elusive Peace
* %Sumit Ganguly
* Part IV. BUILDERS OF PEACE, ADVOCATES OF CHANGE: EXEMPLARY
INDIVIDUALS IN THE HISTORY OF PEACEMAKING
* Chapter 20. Erasmus and the "Invention of Peace"
* Peter van den Dungen
* Chapter 21. Elihu Burritt: America's Nineteenth Century International
Peacemaker
* Charles F. Howlett
* Chapter 22. Bertha von Suttner: The Making of a Peace Activist
* Deborah Buffton
* Chapter 23. Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan
* Robert Shaffer
* Chapter 24. Nobel Peace Laureates Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch:
Claiming Women's Political Voice and Opposing Nationalism
* Judy D. Whipps
* Chapter 25. Mohandas Gandhi
* Gail Presbey
* Chapter 26. "Pilots of Our Struggle": Albert Luthuli and the Ending
of Apartheid
* David Hostetter
* Chapter 27. Against War: Olof Joachim Palme's Legacy of Peace
* Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
* Chapter 28. Sérgio Vieira de Mello: Lessons on Negotiating with the
Devil
* Leon Hartwell
* Part V. ESSENTIAL ISSUES RELATED TO PEACE HISTORY
* Chapter 29. Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict
* Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, and Constantinos
Syropoulos
* Chapter 30. International Law, International Institutions, and the
Pursuit of Peace
* John Gittings
* Chapter 31. International Dimensions of Anti-Nuclear Activism
* Christian Philip Peterson, Kyle Harvey, and William M. Knoblauch
* Chapter 32. The Literature of Peace: A War Refugee's "Orphaned Voice"
in The Sympathizer
* Pamela J. Rader
* Chapter 33. Gender, Sexuality, and Peace
* Kathleen Kennedy
* Chapter 34. Religious Peacebuilding since World War II
* Denis Dragovic
* Chapter 35. Addressing Inequality in Peace Studies: How the
Peace-Development Nexus is Driving a Needed Transformative Turn
* Erin McCandless and Mary Hope Schwoebel
* Chapter 36. Conscientious Objection: A Brief International History
* Christian Philip Peterson, Chris Lombardi, and William M. Knoblauch
* Chapter 37. Socialism, Internationalism, and Peace, 1869-1919
* Nigel Young
* Part VI. FUTURE OF PEACE HISTORY
* Chapter 38. Is there a Place for the History of Violence in the
History of Peace?
* John Smolenski
* Chapter 39. The Future of Peace History
* Michael Goode
* Chapter 40. Exploring Archives, Examining Resources, and Developing
Strategies for Research in Peace History
* Wendy E. Chmielewski
* Postscript
* Suggested Readings on Peace History and Peacemaking
* Index