They Called It Peace Worlds of Imperial Violence Lauren Benton
Material type:
- Text
- ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
- Band
- 9780691248479
- Colonialism & imperialism
- European history
- Europäische Geschichte
- General & world history
- Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
- HISTORY / Europe / General
- HISTORY / Military / General
- HISTORY / World
- International relations
- Internationale Beziehungen
- Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
- Military history
- Militärgeschichte
- POL045000
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
- Empires & historical states
- Historische Staaten und Reiche in Europa
- Fellow
- Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow
- Class of Spring 2022
- Written at the Academy
- 325.3209
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A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.In an account spanning from Asia to the Americas, Lauren Benton shows how imperial violence redefined the very nature of war and peace. Instead of preparing lasting peace, fragile truces ensured an easy return to war. Serial conflicts and armed interventions projected a de facto state of perpetual war across the globe. Benton describes how seemingly limited war sparked atrocities, from sudden massacres to long campaigns of dispossession and extermination. She brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined small violence as essential to imperial rule and global order.Holding vital lessons for us today, They Called It Peace reveals how the imperial violence of the past has made perpetual war and the threat of atrocity endemic features of the international order
"I am grateful [...] for support from [...] the American Academy in Berlin, where I was the Anna-Maria Kellen fellow in spring 2022." --p.199
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