| The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic Contributor(s): Goode, Smolenski |
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ISBN: 9004371117 ISBN-13: 9789004371118 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
| Series: Early American History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.27 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Specter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of "right ordering" that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. The historicization of peace, the authors argue, can sharpen our understanding of violence, empire, and the early modern struggle for order and harmony in the colonial Americas and Atlantic World. Contributors are: Micah Alpaugh, Brendan Gillis, Mark Meuwese, Margot Minardi, Geoffrey Plank, Dylan Ruediger, Cristina Soriano and Wayne E. Lee. |