Download or read book A Cultural History of Peace: written by Ronald Edsforth and published by Cultural Histories. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how different cultures and societies have thought about, struggled for, developed and sustained peace in different ways and at different times. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: definitions of peace; human nature, peace and war; peace, war and gender; peace, pacifism and religion; representations of peace; peace as integration; peace movements; and peace, security and deterrence.