Table of Contents

Illustrations
Introduction
1. Definitions of Peace
2. Human Nature, Peace, and War
3. Peace, War, and Gender
4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion
5. Representations of Peace
6. Peace as Integration
7. Peace Movements
8. Peace, Security and Deterrence
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A thematic overview of the cultural history of peace from 1800 to 1920.

About the Author

Ingrid Sharp is Senior Lecturer in German and Director of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the co-editor of Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists (with Matthew Stibbe; 2009), The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919 (with Alison Fell; 2007) and Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns (with Jane Jordan; 2003).