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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
