Verfasst von:	Benton, Lauren A. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	They called it peace
Titelzusatz:	worlds of imperial violence
Verf.angabe:	Lauren Benton
Verlagsort:	Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Verlag:	Princeton University Press
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	[2024]
Umfang:	xv, 285 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Karten
Fussnoten:	Bibliografie S. 249-267, Index S. 269-285
ISBN:	978-0-691-24847-9
Abstract:	A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires. Imperial 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
	"This new book by historian Lauren Benton offers a novel five-century history of violence in European empires from 1400 to 1900. Her focus is the hidden logic of limited war that drove conflict across many centuries and diverse regions. Never "minor" for the victims, Benton shows how such small wars-described as "border skirmishes" or "peacekeeping operations"-profoundly affected the lived experiences of people in empires around the world. Worse, such conflicts often opened trap doors to atrocities and massacres as entire indigenous communities were seen as particularly legitimate targets of generalized violence. At stake is an understanding of why small wars never remain small and why even now global law seems powerless to contend with them. Imperial small wars were, and remain, the beating heart of the global order as the motivations behind them became embedded both legally and institutionally. The first part of the book discusses raiding and captive-taking and the spread of militarized garrisons that advanced European imperial power. It maps serial small wars as components of conquest and questions the logic of truces, truce-breaking, and massacre. The second part turns to the long nineteenth century. As Europeans inserted themselves into politically complex regions, trading companies and settlers secured control over limited territories and relied on networks of alliance, proxy wars, and collaboration with other empires to fight against indigenous polities and enslaved rebels. In this context, imperial agents began to insist, with increasing force, on Europeans' authority to regulate the conduct of war. In the process, they sharpened characterizations of indigenous fighters as savage. Global militarization in the Seven Years War and the Napoleonic Wars further altered these routines and established a "new global regime of armed peace" in which Europe claimed a right to intervene militarily anywhere in the world. Finally, Benton makes the case that the legacy of violence from the imperial era lingers on until today, resulting in global tolerance for the kind of endless conflict we have witnessed during the War on Terror"-- Provided by publisher
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780691248479.pdf
	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303639313234383437397C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1
Schlagwörter:	(s)Imperialismus    / (s)Kolonialismus    / (s)Gewalt    / (s)Nationenbildung    / (s)Spektakel    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Benton, Lauren A., 1956 - : They called it peace. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 285 Seiten)
Sach-SW:	Colonialism & imperialism
	European history
	Europäische Geschichte
	General & world history
	Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
	HISTORY / Europe / General
	HISTORY / Military / General
	HISTORY / World
	International relations
	Internationale Beziehungen
	Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
	Military history
	Militärgeschichte
	POL045000
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
	Guerre et civilisation - Histoire
	Paix
	Violence - Histoire
	Impérialisme - Histoire
	Colonisation - Histoire
Geograph. SW:	Empires & historical states
	Historische Staaten und Reiche in Europa
K10plus-PPN:	1880010941