Author : Valarie H. Ziegler
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865547261
This book chronicles the political and intellectual development of the two major antebellum peace movements. The American Peace Society, a moderate peace group, aimed to work through the institutions of church and state to achieve peace. The New England Nonresistant Society constituted a radical group which advocated the individual's complete separation from all institutions and strict adherence to the example of Christ's life and teachings.
Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 140087873X
Selected portions from Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : American Peace Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781390899504
Excerpt from The Advocate of Peace, Vol. 15: For Years 1864-5 But in how many strictly legal ways does this war, like every other, enlist the cupidities of men in 'its continuance. We find it stated, as one among a thousand instances of enormous gains by what are deemed fair and legitimate means, that one manufacturing company at Lawrence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476705909
In this story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War,...Kazin brings us into the ranks of the largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated peace coalition up to that point in US history. They came from a variety of backgrounds: wealthy and middle and working class, urban and rural, white and black ... They mounted street demonstrations and popular exhibitions, attracted prominent leaders from the labor and suffrage movements, ran peace candidates for local and federal office, and founded new organizations that endured beyond the cause. For almost three years, they helped prevent Congress from authorizing a massive increase in the size of the US army"
Author : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498502202
We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published in 1921 by Walter Benjamin, twentieth century philosophy has been committed to the criticism of violence, even when it has claimed to follow noble ends. But what do we know of the dilemmas, of the “betrayals,” of the disappointments and tragedies which the movement of non-violence has suffered? This book tells a fascinating history: from the American Christian organizations in the first decades of the nineteenth century who wanted to eliminate slavery and war in a non-violent way, to the protagonists of movements—Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Capitini, M. L. King, the Dalai Lama—who either for idealism or for political calculation flew the flag of non-violence, up to the leaders of today’s “color revolutions.”
Author : John A. Garraty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0199771499
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004371680
Specter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. The historicization of peace, the authors argue, can sharpen our understanding of violence, empire, and the early modern struggle for order and harmony in the colonial Americas and Atlantic World. Contributors are: Micah Alpaugh, Brendan Gillis, Mark Meuwese, Margot Minardi, Geoffrey Plank, Dylan Ruediger, Cristina Soriano and Wayne E. Lee.
Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780253346889
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
Author : R. Kayeen Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1593094264
When rapper Da Nigga is sent back in time, he finds himself a slave forced to live the life of his ancestors. A rapper in the present day, Da Nigga must confront the reality of the African-American experience as slavery challenges everything he holds dear: from his fellow rappers and their lyrics, to the executives and their motives. Antebellum is the hard-hitting, gritty story of Da Nigga and his firsthand experiences. An illuminating examination of African-American history, Antebellum is a powerful addition to today's discourse on race and culture.
Author : Charles Howlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 019754908X
"The Oxford Handbook of Peace History uniquely explores the distinctive dynamics of peacemaking across time and place, and analyzing how past and present societies have created diverse cultures of peace and applied strategies for peaceful change. The analysis draws upon the expertise of many well-respected and distinguished scholars from disciplines such as anthropology, economics, history, international relations, journalism, peace studies, sociology, and theology. This work is divided into six parts. The first three sections address the chronological sweep of peace history from the Ancient Egyptians to the present while the last three cover biographical profiles of peace advocates, key issues in peace history, and the future of peace history. A central theme throughout is that the quest for peace is far more than the absence of war or the pursuit of social justice ideals. Students and scholars, alike, will appreciate that this work examines the field of peace history from an international perspective and expands analysis beyond traditional Eurocentric frameworks. This volume also goes far beyond previously published handbooks and anthologies in answering what are the strengths and limits of peace history as a discipline, and what can it offer for the future. It also has the unique features of a state-of-the-field introduction with a detailed treatment of peace history historiography and a chapter written by a noted archivist in the field that provides a comprehensive list of peace research resources. It is a work ably suited applicable for classrooms and scholarly bookshelves"--
