Download or read book Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe written by Derek Croxton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congress of Westphalia has always been famous for two things: as the first modern multilateral peace conference, and for lasting more than five years. Most observers blame the failure to conclude a truce during the peace talks as the crucial reason for the length of the negotiations; statesmen on all sides, but especially Cardinal Mazarin, are held to have prolonged the conference deliberately in the hope of exploiting military success to make greater territorial gains in the peace treaty. Recently, a contrary view has sprung up that identifies Mazarin as an internationalist, almost a pacifist. In this assessment, the French military effort was incompetent, and French gains in the peace treaty minimal. The dissertation resolves these conflicting views by a close study of Mazarin's negotiating policy, his military strategy, and their effect on one another. It concludes that Mazarin cannot be considered an internationalist, far less a pacifist, because he adopted a tough negotiating stance and an effective military policy. At the same time, the military campaigns cannot be blamed for the length of the negotiations, for Mazarin never increased his demands once he had made them formally. In fact, almost all French demands were resolved in the first six months of 1646. Why, then, did the war continue for another two and a half years? The answer is that France was dependent on its allies, particularly Sweden. French policy was a delicate balancing act aimed at achieving maximum gains while offending as few of the many participating states as possible. Unsuccessful with regard to the Dutch, who deserted de facto in 1647, Mazarin was more cautious with regard to the Swedes. By remaining engaged in the German conflict in spite of his desire to turn France's full might against Spain, Mazarin assured France of substantial territorial gains in the Empire.
Download or read book Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe written by Stephen Cummins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents essays on the cultural codes of conflict and its resolution in this period under three broad themes: peacemaking as practice; the nature of mediation and arbitration; and the role of criminal law in conflicts. Through an exploration of conflict and peacemaking, this volume provides innovative accounts of state formation, community and religion in the early modern period.
Download or read book Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe written by Derek Croxton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1648, after five years of negotiations. France signed the Peace of Westphalia. The treaties not only ended a long war with the Holy Roman Empire, but also transferred large parts of Alsace and Lorraine to France. This book is the first full-length study of the French negotiating position: who formulated it, why, and how it changed over time.
Download or read book Westphalia written by D. Croxton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.
Download or read book Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe written by Stephen Cummins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents essays on the cultural codes of conflict and its resolution in this period under three broad themes: peacemaking as practice; the nature of mediation and arbitration; and the role of criminal law in conflicts. Through an exploration of conflict and peacemaking, this volume provides innovative accounts of state formation, community and religion in the early modern period.
Download or read book Rethinking Europe written by Gerhild Scholz Williams and published by Chloe. This book was released on 2019 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era. Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.
Download or read book Westphalia written by D. Croxton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.
Download or read book Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe written by Francis K.H. So and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection conceptualizes the question of rulership in past centuries, incorporating such diverse disciplines as archaeology, art history, history, literature and psychoanalysis to illustrate how kings and queens ruled in Europe from the antiquity to early modern times. It discusses forms of kingship such as client-kingship, monarchy, queen consort and regnant queenship that manifest gubernatorial power in concert with paternal succession and the divine right of the king. While the king assumes a religious dimension in his obligatory functions, justice and peace are vital elements to maintain his sovereignty. In sum, the active side of governmental power is to keep peace and order leading to prosperity for the subjects; the passive side of power is to protect the subjects from external attack and free them from fear. These concepts of power find concurrence in modern times as well as in non-European cultures. Through a truly cross-cultural, transnational, multidimensional, gender-conscious and interdisciplinary study, this collection offers a cutting edge account of how power has been exercised and demonstrated in various cultures of some bygone eras.
Download or read book Peace Treaties and International Law in European History written by Randall Lesaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renaissance onwards. Nevertheless, until recently few scholars have studied these primary sources of the law of nations from a juridical perspective. In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe, including legal and diplomatic historians, international lawyers and an International Relations theorist, analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. Important emphasis is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval concepts on modern practices. This book goes back further in time beyond the epochal Peace of Treaties of Westphalia of 1648 and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.
Download or read book Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe written by Wayne P. Te Brake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that brought these wars to an end, and describes the complex religious peace that emerged from two centuries of experimentation in accommodating religious differences. Rejecting the older authoritarian interpretations of the age of religious wars, the author uses traditional documentary sources as well as photographic evidence to show how a broad range Europeans - from authoritative elites to a colorful array of religious 'dissenters' - replaced the cultural 'unity and purity' of late-medieval Christendom with a variable and durable pattern of religious diversity, deeply embedded in political, legal, and cultural institutions.
Download or read book Handbook of peace in early modern Europe written by Irene Dingel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Preface -- Inhaltsverzeichnis / Table of Content -- Einführung -- Introduction -- Sektion I: Friedensbegriffe und -ideen Visions and Ideas of Peace -- 1. Antike und mittelalterliche Grundlagen frühneuzeitlicher Friedensvorstellungen -- 2. Frieden: Renaissance - Humanismus - Reformation -- 3. Frieden zwischen religiöser und säkularer Deutung, 1555-1700 -- 4. Frieden und Utopie -- 5. Immanuel Kant und die Friedensvorstellungen im Denken der Aufklärung -- 6. Peace and Law -- 7. Ideas of Peace and Practice of Peacemaking in Pre-Modern South Asia -- Sektion II: Friedensordnungen Peace Systems -- 8. Landfrieden -- 9. Justizwesen -- 10. Frieden als Leitbegriff und Handlungsfeld frühneuzeitlicher Policeyordnungen -- 11. Erbeinungen -- 12. Friedensräume. Burgfrieden, Kirchenfrieden, Gerichtsfrieden, Marktfrieden -- 13. Hausfrieden. Eine doppelte Friedensordnung -- 14. Religionsfrieden -- 15. Peacemaking in the Thirty Years War -- 16. Waffenstillstand, Anstand und Stillstand -- Tischer17. Zwischenstaatlicher Frieden -- 18. Friedensverträge -- 19. Friedensschlüsse mit außereuropäischen Herrschern. Afrika, Mittelmeerraum, Osmanisches Reich -- 20. Treaties in Asia -- 21. Peace Treaties Between Colonial Powers and Indigenous Peoples in North America -- Sektion III: Friedenspraktiken und -prozesse Peacemaking and Peace Processes -- 22. Friedenskongresse -- 23. Verhandlungstechniken und -praktiken -- 24. Friedensvermittlung und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit -- 25. Verhandlungssprachen und Übersetzungen -- 26. Akteur*innen der Friedensstiftung und -wahrung -- 27. Historische Sicherheitsforschung und die Sicherheit des Friedens -- 28. Neutralität -- 29. Amnestie und Normaljahre -- 30. Toleranz -- 31. Zeremoniell -- Sektion IV: Friedenskultur: Medien und Vermittlung Peace Cultures: Media and Communication -- 32. Friedensfeiern und Gedächtniskultur -- 33. Die materielle Kultur des Friedenschließens -- 34. Frieden und Friedenssymboliken in der Bildenden Kunst -- 35. Friedensmusiken -- 36. Friedenspredigten -- 37. Frieden in der Literatur -- Sektion V: Frühneuzeitliche Friedensschlüsse Early Modern Peace Treaties -- 38. Der Kuttenberger Religionsfrieden 1485 -- 39. Ewiger Landfrieden 1495 -- 40. Erster und Zweiter Kappeler Landfrieden 1529 & 1531 -- 41. Augsburger Religionsfrieden 1555 -- 42. Der Frieden von Cateau-Cambrésis 1559 -- 43. Warschauer Konföderation 1573 -- 44. The Edict of Nantes 1598 -- 45. Die Friedensschlüsse von Siebenbürgen: Wegmarken religiöser Toleranz oder der Konfessionalisierung? -- 46. Der Westfälische Frieden 1648 -- 47. Nijmegen, Rijswijk, Utrecht: The Peace Treaties of the Wars of Louis XIV -- 48. Der Friede von Zsitvatorok 1606 und die Friedensschlüsse der 'Türkenkriege' -- 49. Die Friedensschlüsse der Nordischen Kriege 1570-1814 -- 50. Die Friedensschlüsse der friderizianischtheresianischen Ära -- 51. Friedensschlüsse zwischen Französischer Revolution und Wiener Kongressordnung -- Verzeichnis der Autor*innen -- List of Authors -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis / List of Abbreviations -- Personenregister / Index of Names -- Ortsregister / Index of Places.
Download or read book Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe written by Stuart Carroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study Stuart Carroll transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during the transition to modernity. He examines how people used the law, and how they characterised their enmities and expressed their sense of justice or injustice. Through the examples of early modern Italy, Germany, France and England, we see when and why everyday animosities escalated and the attempts of the state to control and even exploit the violence that ensued. This book also examines the communal and religious pressures for peace, and how notions of good neighbourliness and civil order finally worked to underpin trust in the state. Ultimately, enmity is not a relic of the past; it remains one of the greatest challenges to contemporary liberal democracy.
Download or read book Conquering Peace written by Stella Ghervas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace. Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification. Bridging intellectual and political history, Ghervas draws on the work of philosophers from Abbé de Saint-Pierre, who wrote an early eighteenth-century plan for perpetual peace, to Rousseau and Kant, as well as statesmen such as Tsar Alexander I, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, and Mikhail Gorbachev. She locates five major conflicts since 1700 that spurred such visionaries to promote systems of peace in Europe: the War of the Spanish Succession, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Each moment generated a “spirit” of peace among monarchs, diplomats, democratic leaders, and ordinary citizens. The engineers of peace progressively constructed mechanisms and institutions designed to prevent future wars. Arguing for continuities from the ideals of the Enlightenment, through the nineteenth-century Concert of Nations, to the institutions of the European Union and beyond, Conquering Peace illustrates how peace as a value shaped the idea of a unified Europe long before the EU came into being. Today the EU is widely criticized as an obstacle to sovereignty and for its democratic deficit. Seen in the long-range perspective of the history of peacemaking, however, this European society of states emerges as something else entirely: a step in the quest for a less violent world.
Download or read book Early Modern European Diplomacy written by Dorothée Goetze and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research – especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown that diplomacy was not as homogenous as previously thought. On the contrary, it was shaped by a multitude of actors, practices and places. The handbook aims to characterise these different manifestations of diplomacy and to contextualise them within ongoing scientific debates. It brings together scholars from different disciplines and historiographical traditions. The handbook deliberately focuses on European diplomacy – although non-European areas are taken into account for future research – in order to limit the framework and ensure precise definitions of diplomacy and its manifestations. This must be the prerequisite for potential future global historical perspectives including both the non-European and the European world.
Download or read book The Origins of War in Early Modern Europe written by Jeremy Black and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peacemaker written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy searches for peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy. Twelve-year-old Okwaho's life has suddenly changed. While he and his best friend are out hunting, his friend is kidnapped by men from a neighboring tribal nation, and Okwaho barely escapes. Everyone in his village fears more raids and killings: The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long, and no one can remember what it was like to live in peace. Okwaho is so angry that he wants to seek revenge for his friend, but before he can retaliate, a visitor with a message of peace comes to him in the woods. The Peacemaker shares his lesson tales—stories that make Okwaho believe that this man can convince the leaders of the five fighting nations to set down their weapons. So many others agree with him. Can all of them come together to form the Iroquois Great League of Peace?
Download or read book Peacemaking in Medieval Europe written by Udo Heyn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes a number of essays published or delivered during the 1980s and 1990s investigating the reasons for conflict in the Middle Ages and the mechanisms by which it was contained. The purpose is to elucidate approaches that could be of use in the modern world. Among the topics are peace campaigns of the church and the state, the movement from private justice to public law and from private combat to rules of war, alternatives to the peace campaigns, and the pacification of Europe. Over 100 pages are devoted to annotated bibliographic material of interest both to medievalists and peace scholars. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
