The Specter of Peace

Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37111-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

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.

Contributors are: Micah Alpaugh, Brendan Gillis, Mark Meuwese, Margot Minardi, Geoffrey Plank, Dylan Ruediger, Cristina Soriano and Wayne E. Lee.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goode, Michael

Smolenski, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Wayne E. Lee

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Relevance of Peace in Early American History

Michael Goode

1 Imperial Peace and Restraints in the Dutch-Iberian Wars for Brazil, 1624–1654

Mark Meuwese

2 “In Peace with all, or at least in Warre with None”: Tributary Subjects and the Negotiation of Political Subordination in Greater Virginia, 1676–1730

Dylan Ruediger

3 Violent Restraint: Keeping Peace in British America and India

Brendan Gillis

4 Peace, Imperial War, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

Geoffrey Plank

5 Nonviolence, Positive Peace, and American Pre-revolutionary Protest, 1765–1775

Micah Alpaugh

6 “Avoiding the Fate of Haiti”: Negotiating Peace in Late-Colonial Venezuela

Cristina Soriano

7 The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815–1837

Margot Minardi

Afterword: Peace and the End(s) of American History

John Smolenski

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Goode, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois at Chicago, is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Utah Valley University. He is the author of multiple articles on relations between colonizers and Native Americans and is currently completing a book entitled A Colonizing Peace: Violence and the Quaker Struggle for Gospel Order in Early America.

John Smolenski, Ph.D. (2001), University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Davis, is the author of Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and co-editor of New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).