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Imagining Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

JAY WINTER
JAY WINTER*
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Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324, USA; jay.winter@yale.edu.
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Any definition of peace is also a definition of war. The two cannot be described other than in each other's image. In the twentieth century there have been four roughly separate periods of warfare. Their character and consequences tell us much about how peace was defined.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 17 , Issue 3: A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century , August 2008 , pp. 413 - 422
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3 Full text at http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/d67c3971bcff1c10c125641e0052b545 (last visited 12 March 2008).

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9 Ibid.

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