Specter of Peace

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).

"These essays illustrate how different perceptions of peace and violence develop from socially constructed understandings of these concepts that, in turn, have often led to misunderstandings rooted in cultural difference. While studies of these misunderstandings, specifically, have previously received little scholarly attention of the colonial Atlantic, this compilation illuminates the importance and need for these studies. The traditional focus on violence has masked the presence and power of peace. The authors in this volume address this deficit and illustrate the central role peace and peacemaking played in affecting imperial and colonial relations in the American Atlantic from the Age of Exploration and Conquest through the Age of Revolutions." Shayna Mehas, Elon University, in World History Connected 17.1https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/17.1/br_mehas.html

• ForewordWayne E. LeeAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Relevance of Peace in Early American HistoryMichael Goode1 Imperial Peace and Restraints in the Dutch-Iberian Wars for Brazil, 1624–1654Mark Meuwese2 “In Peace with all, or at least in Warre with None”: Tributary Subjects and the Negotiation of Political Subordination in Greater Virginia, 1676–1730Dylan Ruediger3 Violent Restraint: Keeping Peace in British America and IndiaBrendan Gillis4 Peace, Imperial War, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic WorldGeoffrey Plank5 Nonviolence, Positive Peace, and American Pre-revolutionary Protest, 1765–1775Micah Alpaugh6 “Avoiding the Fate of Haiti”: Negotiating Peace in Late-Colonial VenezuelaCristina Soriano7 The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815–1837Margot MinardiAfterword: Peace and the End(s) of American HistoryJohn SmolenskiIndex