{"id":1307,"date":"2021-03-22T10:06:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:08:06","slug":"book-launch-conquering-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/2021\/03\/22\/book-launch-conquering-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch: Conquering Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Wednesday 24 March, Prof. <strong>Stella Ghervas<\/strong>\u00a0(Newcastle) presents her book\u00a0<strong><em>Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(Harvard UP, 2021) at the History of Political Ideas Seminar.<br \/>\n<strong>Discussant<\/strong>: Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Please register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ac.uk\/events\/book-launch-stella-ghervas-newcastle-conquering-peace-enlightenment-european-union\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Arguing for continuities from the ideals of the Enlightenment, through the nineteenth-century Concert of Nations, to the institutions of the European Union and beyond,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hup.harvard.edu%2Fcatalog.php%3Fisbn%3D9780674975262&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C9c412b2a3d1342a8423e08d8ed30b80a%7C569df091b01340e386eebd9cb9e25814%7C0%7C0%7C637520140780249949%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=St3KrKiRbiE63BBDsD3WcyosP%2BV5OMbzA3AkebozS4w%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.hup.harvard.edu%252Fcatalog.php%253Fisbn%253D9780674975262%26data%3D04%257C01%257C%257C9c412b2a3d1342a8423e08d8ed30b80a%257C569df091b01340e386eebd9cb9e25814%257C0%257C0%257C637520140780249949%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C1000%26sdata%3DSt3KrKiRbiE63BBDsD3WcyosP%252BV5OMbzA3AkebozS4w%253D%26reserved%3D0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616594542486000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF53thhwoxF8pIwrD_WZ6OOZQKlJA\"><em>Conquering Peace<\/em><\/a>\u00a0illustrates how peace as a value shaped the idea of a unified Europe long before the EU came into being. Today the EU is widely criticized as an obstacle to sovereignty and for its democratic deficit. Seen in the long-range perspective of the history of peacemaking, however, this European society of states emerges as something else entirely: a step in the quest for a less violent world.<\/p>\n<p>Stella Ghervas is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle University\u00a0and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her book\u00a0<em>R\u00e9inventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l\u2019Europe de la Sainte-Alliance<\/em>\u00a0won the Guizot Prize from the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 24 March, Prof. Stella Ghervas\u00a0(Newcastle) presents her book\u00a0Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union\u00a0(Harvard UP, 2021) at the History of Political Ideas Seminar. Discussant: Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL) Please register here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-seminar-in-the-history-of-political-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}