The Specter of Peace - Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic

Specter of Peace challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. Histories of peacemaking, the volume argues, sharpens our understanding of colonialism and empire.

About the author

Michael Goode, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois at Chicago, is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Utah Valley University. He is the author of multiple articles on relations between colonizers and Native Americans and is currently completing a book entitled A Colonizing Peace: Violence and the Quaker Struggle for Gospel Order in Early America.

John Smolenski, Ph.D. (2001), University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Davis, is the author of Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and co-editor of New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Goode (Editor), John Smolenski (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2018
• EAN: 9789004371118
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37111-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Early American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous