ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

Monday 5 October 2015

BOOK: Renger DE BRUIN, Cornelis VAN DER HAVEN, Lotte JENSEN en David ONNEKINK (eds.), Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2015), XV + 288 p. ISBN 9789004304789, € 115

(image source: Brill)

Brill published a collective work on the Peace of Utrecht (1713), edited by Renger De Bruin (City Museum), Cornelis Van der Haven (UGent), Lotte Jensen (Nijmegen) and David Onnekink (Utrecht).

Abstract:
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics
 Table of Contents:
Preliminary Material
pp i –xv Introduction
pp 1 –21 1 The Olive and the Horse: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Diplomacy (M. & L. Frey)
pp 23 –39 2 Behind the Stage: The Global Dimension of the Negotiations (L. Bély)
pp 40 –52 3 ‘Enemies of their patrie’? Savoyard Identity and the Dilemmas of War, 1690–1713 (Ph. McCluskey)
pp 53 –68 4 Pride and Prejudice: Universal Monarchy Discourse and the Peace Negotiations of 1709–1710 (D. Onnekink)
pp 69 –91 5 Madame Du Noyer Presenting and Re-presenting the Peace of Utrecht (H. Goldwyn & S. van Dijk)
pp 93 –113 6 ‘Dieu veuille que cette Paix soit de longue durée . . .’ The History of the Congress and the Peace of Utrecht by Casimir Freschot  (H. Duchhardt)
pp 114 –122 7 The Treaty of Utrecht and Addison’s Cato: Britain’s War of the Spanish Succession, Peace and the Imperial Road Map (S. Al-Shayban)
pp 123 –141 8 Jonathan Swift’s Peace of Utrecht  (C. Jackson)
pp 142 –158 9 Visions of Europe: Contrasts and Combinations of National and European Identities in Literary Representations of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) (L. Jensen)
pp 159 –178 10 Theatres of War and Diplomacy on the Early-Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam Stage (C. van der Haven)
179 –196 11 Performance and Propaganda in Spanish America during the War of the Spanish Succession (A. A. Olivas)
pp 197 –206 12 Promoting the Peace: Queen Anne and the Public Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral (J. Farguson)
pp 207 –222 13 Fiery Metaphors in the Public Space: Celebratory Culture and Political Consciousness around the Peace of Utrecht (W. Frijhoff)
pp 223 –248 14 Memory Theatre: Remembering the Peace after Three Hundred Years  (J. O. Newman)
pp 249 –265 15 Peace Was Made Here: The Tercentennial of the Treaty of Utrecht, 2013–2015 (R. De Bruin)
pp 266 –281 Index
pp 283 –288 
 Source: Booksandjournalsonline (Brill).