A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire

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. Cover page 1 Halftitle page 2 Series page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 CONTENTS 6 ILLUSTRATIONS 7 GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE 10 INTRODUCTION Toward a Culture of Peace 16 THE PROGRESS OF PEACE 1815–1920 19 HUMANIZING WAR 21 PACIFISM AND MILITARISM 23 INTERNATIONALISM 24 SOCIALISM AND ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENTS 25 DARWIN AND EVOLUTIONARY PEACE BIOLOGY 28 IMPERIALISM AND LIMITED SYMPATHIES 29 THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT 30 WORLD WAR I 32 WORLD WAR I PEACE TREATIES AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 34 CONCLUSION 36 CHAPTER ONE Definitions of Peace 38 INTRODUCTION 38 PEACE IN THE POST-NAPOLEONIC ERA (1814–53) 40 “PEACE” IN THE WORLD: FROM COLONIES TO THE RISE OF EXTRA-EUROPEAN POWERS 44 PEACE THROUGH LAW 49 PEACE AS A LEGAL PROCESS 50 CONCLUSION 54 CHAPTER TWO Human Nature, Peace,and War Jane Addams and Evolutionary Psychology 58 A GENDERED VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE 60 CONCLUSION 70 CHAPTER THREE Peace, War, and Gender The Evolution of Women’s Voices 72 CHAPTER FOUR Peace, Pacifism, and Religion 88 “THE FRIEND O’ GOD AN’ PEACE” 88 “EZ FER WAR, I CALL IT MURDER” 92 “GOD’LL SEND THE BILL TO YOU” 97 “ONCE TO EVERY MAN AND NATION” 101 SUMMARY 107 CHAPTER FIVE Representations of Peace Bertha von Suttner, Activist and Visionary on Dreams, Peace, and Justice 108 YOUTH AND FORMATIVE YEARS 110 THE PACIFIST WRITER (1889) 112 THE PEACE WORKER 114 SUTTNER’S LEGACY 120 CHAPTER SIX Peace Movements 126 INTRODUCTION 126 THE PEACE MOVEMENT: CAMPAIGNING FOR PACIFICISM OR PACIFISM 126 1815–67: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ANGLO-AMERICAN-LED MOVEMENT 128 1867–1914: A EUROPE-LED “PATRIOTIC” MOVEMENT 133 1914–20: A MOVEMENT RECONSTRUCTED BY WORLD WAR 138 CHAPTER SEVEN Peace, Security, and Deterrence: “The greatest work of civilization” The Hague Conferences of 1899, 1907, and 1915 144 CHAPTER EIGHT Peace as Integration Tolstoy on Peace and the End of History 158 CALCULUS 158 INTEGRATION 161 FREEDOM AND SELF-ASSERTION 167 FREEDOM AND SELF-PRESERVATION 169 OVERCOMING FREEDOM 171 SELF-ABNEGATION 174 VII. 174 NOTES 176 BIBLIOGRAPHY 184 CONTRIBUTORS 206 INDEX 208 "A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how different cultures and societies have thought about, struggled for, developed and sustained peace in different ways and at different times. 1. A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE) ; 2. A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450) ; 3. A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648) ; 4. A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 - 1815) ; 5. A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire (1815 - 1920) ; 6. A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age (1920 - present). Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 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. This structure offers readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter across volumes. Generously illustrated, the full six-volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in history."--Site Web de l'éditeur