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The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective.

The opening and closing chapters pay tribute to the pioneering leadership and scholarly accomplishments of Peter Brock and include a complete bibliography of his work in the field of peace history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dyck, Harvey L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1 Peter Brock as a Historian of World-wide Pacifism: An Appreciation
  • I. APPROACHES TO PEACE HISTORY
  • 2 Ten Distinctions for Peace Historians
  • 3 Thinking about Peace in History
  • 4 Jacob ter Meulen and Bart de Ligt as Pioneers of Peace History
  • II. CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS OF PACIFISM AND NON-RESISTANCE
  • 5 Non-violence and Women's Resistance in Early Christianity
  • 6 War as a Moral Problem in the Early Church: The Historian's Hermeneutical Assumptions
  • 7 Anabaptists and the Sword Revisited: The Trend from Radicalism to Apoliticism
  • 8 The Brethren and Non-resistance
  • 9 The 'Lamb's War' and the Origins of the Quaker Peace Testimony
  • 10 'The Things That Make for Peace': The Context of Pacifism in Quaker Pennsylvania
  • 11 Quaker Women and the Pacifist Impulse in Britain, 1900-1920
  • 12 The Quaker Peace Testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize
  • III. GANDHI AND THE INDIAN TRADITION OF NON-VIOLENCE
  • 13 Himsā and Ahimsā Traditions in Hinduism
  • 14 Peace and Non-violence in Buddhism
  • 15 Gandhi, Tolstoy, and the Tolstoyans
  • 16 Gandhi's Non-violence: Metaphysical, Moral, Political and International Aspects
  • IV. PACIFISM AND PEACE MOVEMENTS IN THE MODERN WORLD, 1890-1955
  • 17 The Reinvention of the 'Just War' among European Pacifists before the First World War
  • 18 Themes and Contradictions in the American Peace Movement, 1895-1917
  • 19 Pacifism and Revolution: Bertrand Russell and Russia, 1914-1918
  • 20 'Transnationalism' in the Early Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  • 21 A Question of Respectability and Tactics: Vera Brittain and Food Relief for Occupied Europe, 1941-1944
  • 22 Ambivalence in the Post-Second World War French Peace Movement, 1946-1952
  • 23 The Dilemma of Canadian Pacifists during the Early Cold War Years.