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Challenge to Mars : essays on pacifism from 1918 to 1945 / edited by Peter Brock and Thomas P. Socknat

Published
Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [1999]
Copyright Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 474 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Additional Creators
Brock, Peter, 1920-2006 and Socknat, Thomas Paul
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Contents
Mennonites and military service in the Soviet Union to 1939 / Lawrence Klippenstein -- Russian Baptists and the military question, 1918-1929 / Paul D. Steeves -- Pacifism and conscientious objection in Finland, 1918-1945 / Thomas Hackman and Katja Huumo -- In search of a 'lost' Belarusan pacifist leader / Peter Brock -- War resisters in Weimar Germany / Guido Grünewald -- The anarchopacifism of Bart de Ligt / Herman Noordegraaf -- The conviction of things not seen: Christian pacifism in France, 1919-1945 / Peter Farrugia -- Defending the rights of man: the Ligue des droits de l'homme and the problem of peace / Norman Ingram -- A legitimate peace movement: the case of interwar Britain, 1918-1945 / Martin Ceadel -- Women pacifists in interwar Britain / Josephine Eglin -- The Peace Pledge Union: from peace to war, 1936-1945 / Andrew Rigby -- J.S. Woodsworth and war / Kenneth McNaught -- 'Practical' and absolute pacifism in the early years of the U.S. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom / Anne Marie Pois -- The fight against war of the historic peace churches, 1919-1941 / Donald F. Durnbaugh -- Quakers in uniform: the Friends Ambulance Unit / Lyn Smith -- Conscientious objection in Canada / Thomas P. Socknat -- Pacifists as conscientious objectors in Australia / Peter Brock and Malcolm Saunders -- Pacifism and conscientious objection in New Zealand / J.E. Cookson -- Conscience and conscription in a free society: U.S. Civilian Public Service / Mitchell L. Robinson -- Pacifist professional women on the job in the United States Rachel Waltner Goossen -- Prison journey of an American war resister / Larry Gara -- Conscientious objection and popular culture: the care of Lew Ayres / Jennifer Frost -- Conscientious objectors in Nazi Germany / Peter Brock -- Danish war resisters under Nazi occupation / Peter Kragh Hansen -- Pacifists in Nazi-occupied Norway / Torleiv Austad -- For church and peace: Dutch Christian pacifists under Nazi occupation / Henk van den Berg and Ton Coppes -- Pacifism in Japan, 1918-1945 / Cyril H. Powles -- Gandhi's Satyagraha and its roots in India's past / Antony Kozhuvanal.
Summary
"Emerging in 1918 from the devastation of World War I, the modern pacifist movement expanded rapidly and soon became organized on a transnational basis. These essays present aspects of the movement's development to the end of the Second World War." "The fourteen essays in Part I look at the interwar years, which gave rise to an array of pacifist organizations, both religious and humanist, throughout Europe and North America. Twelve essays in Part II deal with the brutal challenge to pacifist ideals posed by the Second World War and include a look at the fate of those courageous Germans who refused to fight for Hitler. The struggles of Christian pacifism in Japan and the satyagraha (non-violent soul force) of Gandhi in India are the focus of the two closing studies (Part III). These twenty-eight essays by scholars from eleven countries present an impressive overview of this remarkable movement, at the same time drawing out many little-known areas of pacifist activity."--Jacket
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ISBN
9781442672796 (electronic bk.)
144267279X (electronic bk.)
9781282028722 (online)
1282028723
0802043712 (bound)
9780802043719
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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