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Imperial violence
"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."
The book "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."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peaceBenton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
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