Jojo Rabbit
Franz, Benjamin. 2019. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 49, no. 2: 34-36. Benjamin Franz writes a review of Taika Waititi’s film Jojo Rabbit, analyzing Waititi’s use of genre-blending to create a…
Category: History
One Woman’s Way to Peace: The Development of Vera Brittain’s Pacifism
Mellown, Muriel. 1985. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 8, no. 2: 1–6. This text focuses on the life and work of British author Vera Brittain who lived through the horrors of the First World War and asserted that…
Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry
Johnson, James Turner. 2014. Princeton: Princeton University Press. This book is a sequel to Johnson’s Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War and aims to investigate how the West developed and perpetuated the…
Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas
Lowe, Ben, 1997. 1340–1560. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. This book explores the growth and development of the pacifist movement in historical English foreign policy, examining how foundational…
Nation, narration, unification? The politics of history teaching after the Rwandan genocide
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. 2009. Journal of Genocide Research 11, no. 1: 31-53. This paper illustrates how history is used in order to build peace, focusing on the Rwandan Genocide as an example as to how the narration…
Peace history: An introduction
Van den Dungen, Peter, and Lawrence S. Wittner. 2003. Journal of Peace Research 40, no. 4: 363-375. This piece provides an introduction to Peace Studies within History, emphasising the social nature of the study.…
Peace in History
Gittings, John. 2016. In: Richmond, Oliver, Sandra Pogodda, and Jasmin Ramovic, eds. ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace.’ Springer: 21-31. Gittings examines the theoretical element…
Peace and Women’s Issues in U.S. History
Alonso, Harriet Hyman. 1994. OAH Magazine of History 8, no. 3 : 20–25. Alonso emphasises the question ‘but what about women?’ when looking at political peace-building enterprises, emphasising how women in America used…
The First Peace Societies
Cortright, David. 2008. Chapter. In Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas, 25-44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cortright undertakes a historical analysis of the creation of Peace organisations from the…