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THEY CALLED IT PEACE - LAUREN BENTON GEBUNDEN

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial
conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding  slaving  and plunder. European empires
amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They
Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours
of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In an account
spanning from Asia to the Americas  Lauren Benton shows how imperial violence redefined the
very nature of war and peace. Instead of preparing lasting peace  fragile truces ensured an
easy return to war. Serial conflicts and armed interventions projected a de facto state of
perpetual war across the globe. Benton describes how seemingly limited war sparked atrocities 
from sudden massacres to long campaigns of dispossession and extermination. She brings vividly
to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined
small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order. Holding vital lessons for us
today  They Called It Peace reveals how the imperial violence of the past has made perpetual
war and the threat of atrocity endemic features of the international order.

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