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Book SynopsisThe 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 historians have studied early modern international relations in isolation. By studying the political as well as the cultural aspects of this peace (and its concomitant paradoxes) from a broader perspective, this volume aims to shed new light on the relation between diplomacy and performative culture in the public sphere. Contributors are: Samia Al-Shayban, Lucien Bély, Renger E. de Bruin, Suzan van Dijk, Heinz Duchhardt, Julie Farguson, Linda Frey, Marsha Frey, Willem Frijhoff, Henriette Goldwyn, Cornelis van der Haven, Clare Jackson, Lotte Jensen, Phil McCluskey, Jane O. Newman, Aaron Alejandro Olivas, David Onnekink. This book is available in Open Access.
Table of ContentsThe book is freely available in Open Access online. List of Illustrations ... ix Notes on Contributors ... xi Introduction ... 1 Renger E. de Bruin, Cornelis van der Haven, Lotte Jensen and David Onnekink Part 1 The Diplomatic Stage 1 The Olive and the Horse: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Diplomacy ... 25 Linda Frey and Marsha Frey 2 Behind the Stage: The Global Dimension of the Negotiations ... 40 Lucien Bély 3 ‘Enemies of their patrie’? Savoyard Identity and the Dilemmas of War, 1690–1713 ... 53 Phil McCluskey 4 Pride and Prejudice: Universal Monarchy Discourse and the Peace Negotiations of 1709–1710 ... 69 David Onnekink Part 2 The Publicity Stage 5 Madame Du Noyer Presenting and Re-presenting the Peace of Utrecht ... 95 Henriette Goldwyn and Suzan van Dijk 6 ‘Dieu veuille que cette Paix soit de longue durée . . .’ The History of the Congress and the Peace of Utrecht by Casimir Freschot ... 114 Heinz Duchhardt 7 The Treaty of Utrecht and Addison’s Cato: Britain’s War of the Spanish Succession, Peace and the Imperial Road Map ... 123 Samia Al-Shayban 8 Jonathan Swift’s Peace of Utrecht ... 142 Clare Jackson 9 Visions of Europe: Contrasts and Combinations of National and European Identities in Literary Representations of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) ... 159 Lotte Jensen Part 3 The Theatrical Stage 10 Theatres of War and Diplomacy on the Early-Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam Stage ... 181 Cornelis van der Haven 11 Performance and Propaganda in Spanish America during the War of the Spanish Succession ... 197 Aaron Alejandro Olivas 12 Promoting the Peace: Queen Anne and the Public Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral ... 207 Julie Farguson 13 Fiery Metaphors in the Public Space: Celebratory Culture and Political Consciousness around the Peace of Utrecht ... 223 Willem Frijhoff Part 4 The Commemorative Stage 14 Memory Theatre: Remembering the Peace after Three Hundred Years ... 251 Jane O. Newman 15 Peace Was Made Here: The Tercentennial of the Treaty of Utrecht, 2013–2015 ... 266 Renger E. de Bruin Index ... 283
