Peace : A World History (Hardcover)

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.