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The pacifist impulse in historical perspective /

This volume of twenty-three essays appears in recognition of the emergence of peace history as a relatively new and coherent field of learning. ... these essays were presented at an international conference "The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective". ... Together the essays in this b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brock, Peter, 1920-2006 (honouree.), Dyck, Harvey L. (Harvey Leonard) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Peter Brock as a historian of world-wide pacifism : an appreciation / Harvey L. Dyck
  • Ten distinctions for peace historians / Martin Ceadel
  • Thinking about peace in history / Charles Chatfield
  • Jacob ter Meulen and Bart de Ligt as pioneers of peace history / Peter van den Dungen
  • Non-violence and women's resistance in early Christianity / Luise Schottroff
  • War as a moral problem in the early Church : the historian's hermeneutical assumptions / John H. Yoder
  • Anabaptists and the sword revisited : the trend from radicalism to apoliticism / James M. Stayer
  • The Brethren and non-resistance / Donald F. Durnbaugh
  • The "Lamb's war" and the origins of the Quaker peace testimony / Hugh Barbour
  • "The things that make for peace" : the context of pacifism in Quaker Pennsylvania / Jack D. Marietta
  • Quaker women and the pacifist impulse in Britain, 1900-1920 / Thomas C. Kennedy
  • The Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize / Irwin Abrams
  • Hiṁsā and ahiṁsā traditions in Hinduism / Klaus K. Klostermaier
  • Peace and non-violence in Buddhism / Roy C. Amore
  • Gandhi, Tolstoy, and the Tolstoyans / James D. Hunt
  • Gandhi's non-violence : metaphysical, moral, political, and international aspects / Stephen Hay
  • The reinvention of the "just war" among European pacifists before the First World War / Sandi E. Cooper
  • Themes and contradictions in the American peace movement, 1895-1917 / Michael A. Lutzker
  • Pacifism and revolution : Bertrand Russell and Russia, 1914-1920 / Richard A. Rempel
  • "Transnationalism" in the early Women's International League for Peace and Freedom / Jo Vellacott
  • A question of respectability and tactics : Vera Brittain and food relief for occupied Europe, 1941-1944 / Y. Aleksandra Bennett
  • Ambivalence in the post-Second World War French peace movement, 1946-1952 / Norman Ingram
  • The dilemma of Canadian pacifists during the early Cold War years / Thomas P. Socknat.