The specter of peace : rethinking violence and power in the colonial Atlantic /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Early American history series ;
v. 9. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 279 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004371118 9004371117 |
| ISSN: | 1877-0216 ; |