TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benton,Lauren
TI  - They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
SN  - 9780691248479
U1  - 325.3209 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Colonialism & imperialism
KW  - European history
KW  - Europäische Geschichte
KW  - General & world history
KW  - Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General
KW  - HISTORY / Military / General
KW  - HISTORY / World
KW  - International relations
KW  - Internationale Beziehungen
KW  - Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
KW  - Military history
KW  - Militärgeschichte
KW  - POL045000
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - Empires & historical states
KW  - Historische Staaten und Reiche in Europa
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow
KW  - Class of Spring 2022
KW  - Written at the Academy
N2  - 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
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