The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the book includes contributions from authors working in fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, art, sociology, and Peace Studies. The book crosses the divide between historical inquiry and Peace Studies scholarship, with traditional aspects of peace promotion sitting alongside expansive analyses of peace through other lenses, including specific regional investigations of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Divided thematically into six parts that are loosely chronological in structure, the book offers a broad overview of peace issues such as peacebuilding, state building, and/or conflict resolution in individual countries or regions, and indicates the unique challenges of achieving peace from a range of perspectives.
Global in scope and supported by regional and temporal case studies, the volume is an essential resource for educators, activists, and policymakers involved in promoting peace and curbing violence as well as students and scholars of Peace Studies, history, and their related fields.
List of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Disciplines in disputehistory, peace studies, and the pursuit of
peaceCHRISTIAN PHILIP PETERSON, MICHAEL LOADENTHAL, AND WILLIAM M.
KNOBLAUCHPART IParadigms of peace 1 Philosophies of peace, 17501865 CASEY
RENTMEESTER2 Peace in an age of modernity, 18651914 CHARLES F. HOWLETT AND
CHRISTIAN PHILIP PETERSON3 Liberal internationalism and the search for
international peace WAQAR ZAIDI4 Structural conflict, systemic violence, and
peace: A guided reading MICHAEL LOADENTHALPART IIIcons of peace 5 Three
apostles of non-violence: An introduction to the religious thinking of
Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan ANNA HAMLING6 The evolution of
Tolstoyan pacifism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 19001937
IRINA GORDEEVA7 One mans peace: Influences on Martin Luther King, Jr.s
non-violent philosophy KEVIN E. GRIMM8 Sane ideas which may yet save the
world from further conflict: Bertrand Russells and Julian Huxleys lecture
tours in early Cold War Australia JO GRANT9 Black Power and the anti-Vietnam
War movement SIMON HALL10 Ibrahim Rugova and his peaceful resistance for
independence of Kosovo JUSUF SALIH11 Nelson Mandela and the decolonial
paradigm of peace SABELO J. NDLOVU-GATSHENIPART IIIReligious and cultural
dimensions of peace 12 Losing my religion: The effects of World War I on
pacifism in the Stone-Campbell Movement JOSHUA W. JEFFERY13 From Father
Berrigan to Black Lives Matter: Literary representations of peace activism
Christian Philip Peterson teaches history at Ferris State University, USA. Besides writing numerous book chapters and journal articles, he has also authored two books, including Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West (Routledge, 2012).
William M. Knoblauch is Assistant Professor of History at Finlandia University, USA. He is most recently the author of Nuclear Freeze in a Cold War: The Reagan Administration, Cultural Activism, and the End of the Arms Race (2017).
Michael Loadenthal is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, and the Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association. His latest book, The Politics of Attack (2017), explores the communiqués of clandestine anarchist networks.
