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Author Ghervas, Stella, author. Author.

Title Conquering peace : from the Enlightenment to the European Union / Stella Ghervas.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Description 1 online resource (513 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Europe and peace -- The enlightened spirit of peace: beyond the Treaty of Utrecht -- The spirit of Vienna: a balance of diplomacy -- The spirit of Geneva: seeking peace through a League of Nations -- The first postwar European spirit: breakthrough to unification -- The spirit of enlarged Europe: the flight of the monarch butterflies -- Conclusion: Quo vadis, Europe?
Summary "Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed warning to Euroskeptics, Stella Ghervas shows that, for more than 300 years, European thinkers and political leaders have sought to achieve peace by pursuing political unity, with the EU representing the latest achievement"-- Provided by publisher.
Biography Stella Ghervas is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Subject Peace-building, European -- History.
Political science -- Europe -- Philosophy.
Europe -- Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Peace-building, European.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Politics and government.
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780674975262 067497526X (DLC) 2020032841 (OCoLC)1198088673
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