Performances of Peace : : Utrecht 1713 / / edited by Renger de Bruin [and three others].
The Peace of Utrecht (1713), which brought an end to the War of the Spanish Succession, was a milestone in global history. Performances of Peace aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. For too long, cultural and political historia...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) :; illustrations (some colour) ; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 The Olive and the Horse: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Diplomacy
- 2 Behind the Stage: The Global Dimension of the Negotiations /
- 3 ‘Enemies of their patrie’? Savoyard Identity and the Dilemmas of War, 1690–1713
- 4 Pride and Prejudice: Universal Monarchy Discourse and the Peace Negotiations of 1709–1710
- 5 Madame Du Noyer Presenting and Re-presenting the Peace of Utrecht
- 6 ‘Dieu veuille que cette Paix soit de longue durée . . .’ The History of the Congress and the Peace of Utrecht by Casimir Freschot
- 7 The Treaty of Utrecht and Addison’s Cato: Britain’s War of the Spanish Succession, Peace and the Imperial Road Map
- 8 Jonathan Swift’s Peace of Utrecht
- 9 Visions of Europe: Contrasts and Combinations of National and European Identities in Literary Representations of the Peace of Utrecht (1713)
- 10 Theatres of War and Diplomacy on the Early-Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam Stage
- 11 Performance and Propaganda in Spanish America during the War of the Spanish Succession
- 12 Promoting the Peace: Queen Anne and the Public Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral
- 13 Fiery Metaphors in the Public Space: Celebratory Culture and Political Consciousness around the Peace of Utrect
- 14 Memory Theatre: Remembering the Peace after Three Hundred Years
- 15 Peace Was Made Here: The Tercentennial of the Treaty of Utrecht, 2013–2015
- Index.