ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

Disciplines in dispute—history, peace studies, and the pursuit of peace

part II|80 pages

Icons of Peace

chapter 5|11 pages

Three Apostles of Non-Violence

An introduction to the religious thinking of Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan

chapter 7|12 pages

One Man’s Peace

Influences on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non-violent philosophy

chapter 8|11 pages

“Sane Ideas which May Yet Save the World from Further Conflict”

Bertrand Russell’s and Julian Huxley’s lecture tours in early Cold War Australia

part III|62 pages

Religious and Cultural Dimensions of Peace

chapter 12|10 pages

Losing My Religion

The effects of World War I on pacifism in the Stone-Campbell Movement

chapter 13|12 pages

From Father Berrigan to Black Lives Matter

Literary representations of peace activism since 1945

chapter 15|9 pages

Apocalyptic Dissenters

Seventh-day Adventists and peace activism in the nineteenth century

chapter 16|19 pages

Improvisatory Peace Activism?

Graffiti during and after Egypt’s most recent revolution 1

part IV|43 pages

Antinuclear Peace Activism

chapter 17|9 pages

The Nuclear Freeze

Transnational pursuit of positive peace

chapter 18|11 pages

Pacific Concerns

Nuclear weapons and the peace movement in Australia, 1960–1967

part V|85 pages

Non-Violence and the Nation State

chapter 22|12 pages

Colombia

A long journey to peace

chapter 25|11 pages

Peace Process without the People

Sidelining popular struggle in Palestine

chapter 26|11 pages

A Farewell to Arms?

Evolving peace in the Taiwan Strait

chapter 27|12 pages

Understanding Violent Conflict in Africa

Trends, causes, and prospects

part VI|91 pages

Modern Challenges

chapter 29|11 pages

The Anti-Vietnam War Movement

International activism and the search for world peace

chapter 30|11 pages

Belgian Peace Demonstrations after the Invasion of Iraq

A sociological perspective

chapter 31|11 pages

An Activist in Exile

Janet Mondlane and the Mozambican liberation movement

chapter 33|15 pages

Unincluded

How women are passed over in peace processes and how data fails to capture their efforts