Performances of Peace
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Performances of Peace
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Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access.

Language
English
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 The Diplomatic Stage
Chapter 1The Olive and the Horse: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Diplomacy
Chapter 2 Behind the Stage: The Global Dimension of the Negotiations
Chapter 3 ‘Enemies of their patrie’? Savoyard Identity and the Dilemmas of War, 1690–1713
Chapter 4 Pride and Prejudice: Universal Monarchy Discourse and the Peace Negotiations of 1709–1710
Part 2 The Publicity Stage
Chapter 5 Madame Du Noyer Presenting and Re-presenting the Peace of Utrecht
Chapter 6 ‘Dieu veuille que cette Paix soit de longue durée . . .’ The History of the Congress and the Peace of Utrecht by Casimir Freschot
Chapter 7 The Treaty of Utrecht and Addison’s Cato: Britain’s War of the Spanish Succession, Peace and the Imperial Road Map
Chapter 8 Swift’s Peace of Utrecht
Chapter 9 Visions of Europe: Contrasts and Combinations of National and European Identities in Literary Representations of the Peace of Utrecht (1713)
Part 3 The Theatrical Stage
Chapter 10 Theatres of War and Diplomacy on the Early-Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam Stage
Chapter 11 Performance and Propaganda in Spanish America during the War of the Spanish Succession
Chapter12 Promoting the Peace: Queen Anne and the Public Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral
Chapter 13 Fiery Metaphors in the Public Space: Celebratory Culture and Political Consciousness around the Peace of Utrecht
Part 4 Commemorative Stage
Chapter 14 Memory Theatre: Remembering the Peace after Three Hundred Years
Chapter 15 Peace Was Made Here: The Tercentennial of the Treaty of Utrecht, 2013–2015
Index
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