Peace: a world history

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Introduction: How Does Peace Have a World History? Chapter One: Survival of the Peaceful: Prehistory to the First Civilizations. Pre-Human Peace and Peacemaking. Prehistoric Evolutions of Peace. Peace, Peacemaking and the First Civilizations. Chapter Two: Peace in the Ancient West: Egypt, Greece and Rome. A Tale of Two Worlds: Peace and Peacemaking in Ancient Egypt. Ancient Greece, Cradle of Western Peace and Peacemaking? One Empire, One Peace: The Rise of Rome to the Pax Romana's Decline. Chapter Three: Peace in the Ancient East: India, China and Japan. The Many, the Few, the One: Peace and Peacemaking in Ancient India. Harmonies and Antinomies of Ancient China. Foreign Influences and Native Peace in Japanese History. Chapter Four: Monotheistic Peaces: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Shalom: Peace in the Torah and its Times. "Our" Universal Peace: From Christ to Constantine. A Pillar of Peace: The Qur'an and its World. Chapter Five: Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation Peaces. A Tale of Two Cities: Medieval Peace and Peacemaking. (Re)Births of Peace: Renaissance Revivals of and Departures from Traditions. Reforming Christian Peace and Peacemaking. Chapter Six: Peace, Peacemaking and the Ascent of Nation-States. Intra-National Peace and Peacemaking. Inter-National Peace and Peacemaking. Peace and Peacemaking Despite Nation-States. Chapter Seven: Colonial and Imperial Peace and Peacemaking. Peaces of the World: Colonial Peace and Peacemaking. The World in Peaces: Imperial Peace and Peacemaking. Chapter Eight: Modern Economics of Peace and Peacemaking. Capitalism: The Profitability of Peace and the Cost of War. Who Owns Peace? Socialist Perspectives. Chapter Nine: Peace in the Twentieth Century, Part One: 1900-1949. The "War to End all Wars". The Peace to End all Peace? Chapter Ten: Peace in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: 1949-1989. Cold War/Hot Peace. One World, Many Peaces. Chapter Eleven: The Presents of Peace. Globalization: Peace at the End of History. Threatening Opportunities: Terrorism, Technology, New Media and Peace. Conclusion: The Pyramid of Peace: Past, Present and Future. Selected Bibliography. Works Cited. Index.