
The Oxford Handbook of Peace History
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 21. September 2023
Book
Hardback
956 pages
978-0-19-754908-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Oxford Handbook of Peace History offers a comprehensive analysis of peace history from ancient times to the present day. With contributions from an international roster of scholars, the Handbook provides researchers, students, and instructors a timely examination of the global dimensions of peace work. Organized around six major sections -- three chronological and three thematic -- the Handbook explores concepts such as peace activism, internationalism, social justice, and cultures of nonviolence as transformative ideas and policy practices. It also demonstrates how conceptions of peace and approaches to peacemaking have varied and developed since antiquity. By including interdisciplinary perspectives on peace, the Handbook introduces new pathways for understanding war, conflict, peacemaking, and violence. The chapters, along with the volume's comprehensive Introduction, provide useful resources for understanding the development of peace history as a discipline while highlighting the connections between peace history and fields such as peace and conflict studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 256 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 61 mm
Weight
1724 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-754908-7 (9780197549087)
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Additional editions

Charles Howlett | Christian Philip Peterson | Deborah D. Buffton
The Oxford Handbook of Peace History
E-Book
08/2023
OUP eBook
€122.99
Available for download

Charles Howlett | Christian Philip Peterson | Deborah D. Buffton
The Oxford Handbook of Peace History
E-Book
08/2023
OUP eBook
€122.99
Available for download
Persons
Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus of Education, Molloy University. He is a recipient of the Peace History Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and Molloy College Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award. His latest book with Seth Kershner and Scott Harding, Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education, published in July 2022.
Christian Philip Peterson received his PhD in history from Ohio University and teaches at Ferris State University (MI-USA). Along with winning several teaching awards, he has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West (2012). He also served as co-editor for The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 (2018).
Deborah D. Buffton is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where she taught World, French, and Chinese History as well as courses on Peace and War and on Nonviolent Resistance Movements. She has served previously as President of the Peace History Society and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has published articles on women and war, propaganda, and the ways that peace and war are memorialized.
David L. Hostetter is the author of Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics; co-editor of Congress Investigates: A Documented History; and has published many academic articles, newspaper commentaries, and encyclopedia entries. He is a graduate of Juniata College where he majored in Peace and Conflict Studies, and he earned his PhD in history from the University of Maryland College Park.
Christian Philip Peterson received his PhD in history from Ohio University and teaches at Ferris State University (MI-USA). Along with winning several teaching awards, he has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West (2012). He also served as co-editor for The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 (2018).
Deborah D. Buffton is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where she taught World, French, and Chinese History as well as courses on Peace and War and on Nonviolent Resistance Movements. She has served previously as President of the Peace History Society and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has published articles on women and war, propaganda, and the ways that peace and war are memorialized.
David L. Hostetter is the author of Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics; co-editor of Congress Investigates: A Documented History; and has published many academic articles, newspaper commentaries, and encyclopedia entries. He is a graduate of Juniata College where he majored in Peace and Conflict Studies, and he earned his PhD in history from the University of Maryland College Park.
Editor
Professor Emeritus of EducationProfessor Emeritus of Education, Molloy University
Adjunct Instructor of HistoryAdjunct Instructor of History, Ferris State University
Professor Emerita of HistoryProfessor Emerita of History, University of Wisconsin
Independent ScholarIndependent Scholar
Content
Preface
Lawrence S. Wittner
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Search for Global Peace: Concepts and Currents in Twenty-First Century Peace History Scholarship
Christian Philip Peterson, Charles F. Howlett, Deborah D. Buffton, and David L Hostetter
Part 1. TOWARD A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PEACE, ANCIENT TIME TO 1500 CE
Chapter 2. Ancient Egyptian Peace Traditions
Susanne Bickel
Chapter 3. Peace in Ancient Greece
Jennifer T. Roberts
Chapter 4. Ancient Rome and the Quest for Peace
Richard D. Weigel
Chapter 5. Discourses and Debates on Peacemaking in Chinese History
Kam-por Yu
Chapter 6. The Idea of Peace during the European
Lawrence S. Wittner
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Search for Global Peace: Concepts and Currents in Twenty-First Century Peace History Scholarship
Christian Philip Peterson, Charles F. Howlett, Deborah D. Buffton, and David L Hostetter
Part 1. TOWARD A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PEACE, ANCIENT TIME TO 1500 CE
Chapter 2. Ancient Egyptian Peace Traditions
Susanne Bickel
Chapter 3. Peace in Ancient Greece
Jennifer T. Roberts
Chapter 4. Ancient Rome and the Quest for Peace
Richard D. Weigel
Chapter 5. Discourses and Debates on Peacemaking in Chinese History
Kam-por Yu
Chapter 6. The Idea of Peace during the European