The Making of Peace

The Making of Peace represents a unique contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesman have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. It contains a number of case studies by many leading historians in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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"All of the essays are clearly written, informative, intellectually stimulating, and full of important insights." -Ethan S. Rafuse, The Journal of Military History

"Recommended." -Choice

"The broad nature of the book would make it very useful for classroom use, particularly for undergraduate or graduate students of European history"
World History Bulletin, Jessica Achberger, University of Texas at Austin

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Published: January 2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780521517195
Length: 408 pages
Dimensions: 234 × 160 × 26 mm
Weight: 0.65kg
Contains: 7 maps
Availability: Available

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Contents

1. Introduction Williamson Murray
2. The peace of Nicias Paul H. Rahe
3. 'A swift and sure peace': the congress of Westphalia 1643–8 Derek Croxton and Geoffrey Parker
3. The peace of Paris, 1763 Fred Anderson
4. In search of repose: the congress of Vienna and the making of peace Richard Hart Sinnreich
5. War and peace in the post-civil war south James M. McPherson
6. Vae victoribus: Bismarck's quest for peace in the Franco-Prussian war, 1870–1 Marcus Jones
7. Versailles: the peace without a chance Williamson Murray
8. 'Building buffers and filling vacuums': Great Britain and the Middle East, 1914–22 John Gooch
9. Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peacemaking, 1943–9 Colin Gray
10. The economic making of peace James Lacey
11. Ending the Cold War Frederick W. Kagan
12. Conclusion: history and the making of peace Richard Hart Sinnreich.

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Williamson Murray, Paul H. Rahe, Derek Croxton, Geoffrey Parker, Fred Anderson, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James M. McPherson, Marcus Jones, John Gooch, Colin Gray, James Lacey, Frederick W. Kagan

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Williamson Murray , United States Naval Academy, Virginia
Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC, and Professor Emeritus of History at the Ohio State University. He is co-editor of The Past as Prologue (with Richard Hart Sinnreich), The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050 (with MacGregor Knox), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (with Allan R. Millett), and The Making of Strategy (with Alvin Bernstein and MacGregor Knox).
Jim Lacey , Institute of Defense Analyses, Virginia
Jim Lacey is an analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC, where he has written several studies on the war in Iraq and on the Global War on Terrorism. Lacey was also an embedded journalist with Time magazine during the invasion of Iraq, during which he traveled with the 101st Airborne Division. He is the author of Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's 21-Day Assault on Baghdad.

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