In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how societies have sought to put them into practice. Beginning with the status of peace in early hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, and continuing through the present day, the narrative gives students a clear view of the ways people across the world have understood and striven to achieve peace throughout history. Topics covered include:
Moving away from the view of history as a series of military conflicts, Peace in World History offers a new way of looking at world history by focusing on peace. Showing how concepts of peace have evolved over time even as they have been challenged by war and conflict, this lively and engaging narrative enables students to consider peace as a human possibility.
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Peter N. Stearns is Provost and a professor of history at George Mason University.
The accomplished social historian Peter Stearns shows us that peace building is as much our inheritance as war making. With admirable thoroughness and clarity, Dr. Stearns examines human efforts toward peace, beginning with early forms of social organization among hunting and gathering peoples and extending all the way to the present. A strength of the author's analysis is that he also examines why peace building efforts have so often failed. Dr. Stearns empowers us to know what we are really talking about and building on as we work toward a twenty-first century characterized by widespread peace and human flourishing.
― Richard Yoshimachi, President, Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue
This book is an extraordinary synthesis of what humans have done to experiment with peace in different contexts. It is also an invitation to think about peace as a possibility in the midst of contradictory signs. Peace is a choice that humans have made in very different contexts and yielding different results. Peter Stearns is a master in navigating the complexities of peace as it emerges in world history.
― Andrea Bartoli, Dean, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
"...[a] valuable addition to a growing body of good peace history literature... Summing Up: Recommended."
― G. D. Homan, emeritus, Illinois State University in CHOICE
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