Conquering peace : from the Enlightenment to the European Union / Stella Ghervas.
Conquering peace : from the Enlightenment to the European Union / Stella Ghervas.
Conquering peace : from the Enlightenment to the European Union / Stella Ghervas.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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G 2021/2547
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English
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513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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 postwar European spirit: breakthrough to unification -- The spirit of enlarged Eur...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2021.
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"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"-- P...
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Conquering peace : from the Enlightenment to the European Union / Stella Ghervas.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2021/2547
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067497526X
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