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 Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. 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 Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the twentieth and twentieth century.
Author(s): Ronald Edsforth
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: London
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
Introduction
I. A LONG VIEW OF WAR AND PEACE IN THE MODERN ERA
II. NUCLEAR FEAR
III. WAR AVERSION
IV. THE CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES OF MODERN WARFARE
V. GLOBAL PEACE CULTURE
CHAPTER ONE Definitions of Peace
INTRODUCTION
THE MEANINGS OF PEACE
PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL VIOLENCE
A WORLD OF PEACES
SOME AFRICAN DEFINITIONS OF PEACE
SOME ASIAN DEFINITIONS OF PEACE
A LATIN AMERICAN DEFINITION OF PEACE
SOME RUSSIAN DEFINITIONS OF PEACE
SOME NORTH AMERICAN AND WESTERN EUROPEAN DEFINITIONS OF PEACE
PEACE TALK, PEACE MAKING, AND PEACE MOVEMENTS
WHAT IS, AND WHAT MIGHT BE, PEACE?
THE “EVOLUTION” OF PEACE
A DIALECTICAL DEFINITION OF PEACE
IS PEACE POSSIBLE?
CHAPTER TWO Human Nature, Peace, and War
THE HUMAN NATURE CONCEPT
THE CLASSIC WESTERN VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE: NASTY AND BRUTISH
A MODERN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDINGOF HUMAN NATURE
EVALUATING THE EVIDENCE: HUMAN NATURE IS NOT SO NASTY AFTER ALL
PARADIGM SHIFT: CHANGING THE HUMAN NATURE NARRATIVE
CHAPTER THREE Peace, War, and Gender
INTRODUCTION
GENDERING PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT: THE CONCEPTS
GENDERED WARS
PEACE MOVEMENTS, PEACEBUILDING, AND WOMEN
GENDERED PEACEBUILDING
THE GENDERED POSTWAR PEACE
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FOUR Peace, Pacifism, and Religion
JUST WAR TRADITIONS
NONVIOLENCE
PEACE BUILDING
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURES
HUMAN RIGHTS
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FIVE Representations of Peace
I. REPRESENTATIONS OF PEACE IN “THE GLOBAL COMMONS”
II. THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
III. WAR JOURNALISM
IV. PEACE JOURNALISM
V. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER SIX Peace Movements
PEACE MOVEMENTS, MILITARISM, AND CONFLICT
TENSIONS BETWEEN PEACE AND JUSTICE
PEACE MOVEMENTS DURING THE COLD WAR
PEACE AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
THE ROLE OF PEACE MOVEMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL CULTURE
CHAPTER SEVEN Peace, Security, and Deterrence
THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR I
INTERNATIONAL WAR SINCE WORLD WAR I
INTERNATIONAL WAR AND PEACE SINCE WORLD WAR II
CIVIL WAR AND TERRORISM
THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CULTURE OF PEACE
CHAPTER EIGHT Peace as Integration
PEACE AS MORAL FORCE: THE POWER OF IDEAS AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF WAR
INTEGRATING INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS FOR PEACE: OBSTACLES AND ALTERNATIVES
INTEGRATING INSTITUTIONS, PEOPLE AND PRACTICE: BUILDING LASTING PEACE
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
