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A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace. Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification. Bridging intellectual and political history, Ghervas draws on the work of philosophers from Abbé de Saint-Pierre, who wrote an early eighteenth-century plan for perpetual peace, to Rousseau and Kant, as well as statesmen such as Tsar Alexander I, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, and Mikhail Gorbachev. She locates five major conflicts since 1700 that spurred such visionaries to promote systems of peace in Europe: the War of the Spanish Succession, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Each moment generated a “spirit” of peace among monarchs, diplomats, democratic leaders, and ordinary citizens. The engineers of peace progressively constructed mechanisms and institutions designed to prevent future wars. Arguing for continuities from the ideals of the Enlightenment, through the nineteenth-century Concert of Nations, to the institutions of the European Union and beyond, Conquering Peace illustrates how peace as a value shaped the idea of a unified Europe long before the EU came into being. Today the EU is widely criticized as an obstacle to sovereignty and for its democratic deficit. Seen in the long-range perspective of the history of peacemaking, however, this European society of states emerges as something else entirely: a step in the quest for a less violent world.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Stella Ghervas |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
File |
: 529 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674259089 |
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Genre |
: Names, Personal |
Author |
: Charlotte Mary Yonge |
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: |
Release |
: 1878 |
File |
: 604 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IOWA:31858019963432 |
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The text of this book represents not a catalogue of names, dates, and statistics of the war between the United States and Mexico but an attempt to tell the story of that conflict and to depict its color, drama, tragedy, and meaning mainly through the use of ten principal characters who participated in the war and who left behind written accounts. Some men in government during the administration of James K. Polk used a four-word maxim to describe the goal of the United States in the war against Mexico, which resulted from years of bickering and bitterness between the two nations. A paraphrase was used even by General Winfield Scott, a Whig and thus a political opponent of Democrat Polk. The words were "to conquer a peace."
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Genre |
: Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
Author |
: John Edward Weems |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1988 |
File |
: 550 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCSC:32106009002046 |
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Genre |
: Prussia (Germany) |
Author |
: Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1873 |
File |
: 334 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X030576791 |
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Genre |
: United States |
Author |
: John Caldwell Calhoun |
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: |
Release |
: 1883 |
File |
: 606 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCSD:31822025338617 |
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Genre |
: United States |
Author |
: John Caldwell Calhoun |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1883 |
File |
: 602 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000112547553 |
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Genre |
: Baptists |
Author |
: Southern Baptist Convention |
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: |
Release |
: 1891 |
File |
: 1854 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UGA:32108042772957 |
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: |
Author |
: Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) |
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: |
Release |
: 1879 |
File |
: 306 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OXFORD:600091530 |
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Genre |
: |
Author |
: Carlyle |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1871 |
File |
: 486 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UBBE:UBBE-00116328 |
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: |
Author |
: Thomas Carlyle |
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: |
Release |
: 1886 |
File |
: 566 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:B4713409 |