Freedom from war : nonsectarian pacifism, 1814-1914 / Peter Brock
1991, First Edition. Toronto : University of Toronto Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #383313
ISBN: 0802058833
Physical description: ix, 436 pages, [10] pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-417) and index.
English. Contents: The beginnings of nonsectarian pacifism -- Pacifism and the pioneering years of the London Peace Society -- Varieties of pacifism in the first American peace movement -- William Ladd and the controversy over defensive war in the American Peace Society -- Nonresistance and the early phase of American abolitionism -- Nonresistance and radical abolitionism in antebellum America, 1838-1850 -- The pacifism of Adin Ballou -- The League of Universal Brotherhood -- The collapse of radical nonresistance in the United States, 1850-1865 -- Pacifism among the Disciples of Christ : a denominational option -- Pacifist radicals in Victorian Wales -- Henry Richard as a pacifist -- Tolstoy's idea of nonviolence. Tolstoyan war resisters in Russia -- Tolstoyan war resisters in Bulgaria and the Netherlands -- Tolstoyism, cultural nationalism, and conscientiouos objection : a Slovak case study -- Nonviolent anarchism in Austria-Hungary -- Gandhi in South Africa : Ahimsa, war, and Satyagraha -- The dawn of Christian pacifism in Japan -- Nonsectarian pacifism in Britain, 1885-1914 -- The dilemmas of nonsectarian pacifism in the United States, 1865-1914. Subjects: Richard, Henry 1812-1888. 1800-1999 Geschichte (1814-1914) Pacifism History 19th century. Pacifism History 20th century. Allen, William, 1770-1843
Conscientious objection
Gandhi, M. K., 1869-1948
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880. Peace
Peace and Christianity
Peace churches
Peace organisations.
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