1st Edition

Hegemonic Peace and Empire The Pax Romana, Britannica and Americana

By Ali Parchami Copyright 2009
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the language and the ideology of the Pax Romana, the Pax Britannica and the Pax Americana within the broader contexts of  'hegemony' and 'empire'. It addresses three main themes: a conceptual examination of the way in which hegemony has been justified; a linguistic study of how the notion of pax (usually translated as peace) has been used in ancient and modern times;... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: 'Peace Through Victory'  1. The Peace That Defined Empire: The Language and Ideology of the Roman Pax  2. The Pax Romana: The Character of the Roman Hegemonic Peace  Part 2: 'The Savage Wars of Peace' 3. A 'New Rome’: Analogies and Imperial Projections in Victorian and Edwardian Britain  4. The Conceptualisation of the Pax Britannica In the Victorian and Edwardian Eras  5. Imperium et Libertas: The Empire and the ‘Anglo-Saxon Peace’  6. Empire and Hegemony: The Realities and Myths of the British Pax  Part 3: 'The Peace of the Benign Imperium'  7. The Pax Americana Debate: The Liberal Peace and the ‘American Empire’  Conclusion: The Paradox of Hegemonic Peace.  Bibliography

Biography

Ali Parchami is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has a DPhil in History from Oxford University and was a lecturer in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford.