Introduction: how does peace have a world history?
Survival of the peaceful: prehistory to the first civilizations
Peace in the ancient west: Egypt, Greece and Rome
Peace in the ancient East: India, China and Japan
Monotheistic peaces: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation peaces
Peace, peacemaking and the ascent of nation-states
Colonial and imperial peace and peacemaking
Modern economics of peace and peacemaking
Peace in the twentieth century, part I: 1900-1945
Peace in the twentieth century, part II: 1945-1989
Conclusion: the pyramid of peace: past, present and future.
