They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence -- Lauren Benton, Hardcover Kenneth Kugler What if you woke up

What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt

they save themselves

But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky

It's a challenge to get up every day and put your kids first

and beauty--is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known

They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence -- Lauren Benton, Hardcover Kenneth Kugler What if you woke upA sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In