Liberty and conscience [[electronic resource] ] : a documentary history of the experiences of conscientious objectors in America through the Civil War / / edited by Peter Brock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465172903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-19-518525-0; 1-280-48228-1; 0-19-515121-6; 9786610482283; 0-19-803447-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BrockPeter <1920-2006.>
• Disciplina: 355.2/24/09730903
• Soggetti: Conscientious objection - United States - History - 17th century; Conscientious objection - United States - History - 18th century; Conscientious objection - United States - History - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; PART I: COLONIAL AMERICA; 1. The First Quaker Conscientious Objectors in America, 1658; 2. Rhode Island, 1673: "None to be compelled to train or fight against their consciences"; 3. Witnessing to the Quaker Peace Testimony; A. Letter to the Governor of New York, 1672; B. From the Minutes of New England Yearly Meeting, 1712; C. Hatsell Okelley, 1748; 4. Quakers and Naval Impressment, 1705; 5. Conscientious Objectors in the French and Indian War; A. From Joshua Evans's Journal, 1756; B. From John Woolman's Journal, 1757; C. Colonel George Washington and the Quaker Conscientious Objectors, 1760D. Virginia Mennonites and the Militia, 1755-1761; PART II: ENGLISH WEST INDIES; 6. Militia "Sufferings" among Quakers; A. Barbados, 1678-1686; B. Jamaica, 1683-1691; 7. Alternative Service and the Quakers of Antigua; PART III: REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA; 8. Quaker Militia Penalties; 9. Dilemmas of a Quaker Tax and Paper Currency Objector; 10. The German Peace Sects of Pennsylvania and the ; Draft; 11. A Peace Sect Wrestles with the Problem of Hiring a Substitute; 12. The Conscientious Objection of a Methodist Preacher; 13. The Moravian Brethren and WarA. The Pacifism of John Ettwein; B. Moravians and the Draft: An Ambiguous Witness; PART IV: UPPER CANADA; 14. Legislative Exemption for Peace Sects; 15. Quakers and Military Requisitions, 1810-1817; 16. A Quaker Family in the War of 1812; 17. Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Rural Upper Canada, 1840; PART V: THE NEW REPUBLIC TO ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; 18. Continuing Quaker Witness against War, 1801-1824; 19. A Quaker Petition against Militia Conscription, 1810; 20. A Small-Sect Militia Objector; 21. Pleas for Exemption of Nonsectarian Militia Objectors; A. From the Massachusetts Peace Society, 1818B. From the New England Nonresistance Society, 1838; 22. William Lloyd Garrison as a Militia Objector, 1829; 23. Should "Pacific Exempts" Pay Militia Fines?; 24. Nonsectarian Militia Objectors in Jail; A. "But do men ever go to prison rather than train?"; B. From Boston's Leverett Street Jail, 1839 and 1840; 25. Dilemmas of Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Antebellum America; A. Militia Fines; B. Imprisonment of Four New York Quakers, Spring 1839; PART VI: CIVIL WAR AMERICA; 26. A Garrisonian Mother and Her Draft-Age Sons; 27. William Lloyd Garrison and His Son's Exemption from Military Drill at School28. Conscript Dilemmas at the Hopedale Community; 29. Draft Experiences of a Conscripted Shaker; 30. The Civil War Diary of a Quaker Conscript; 31. Trials of a Quaker Conscientious Objector in the Confederate Army; 32. A Reluctant Conscientious Objector; 33. A Consistent War-Tax Objector; 34. A Mennonite Farmer Hires a Substitute; 35. Brethren and Mennonites as Exiles from the Confederate Draft; 36. Adventists Confront the Draft; 37. A Disciple of Christ Goes the Second Mile; 38. Christadelphians and the Draft
• Sommario/riassunto: While objections in the 20th century have been well documented there has been little study of pacifist beliefs in America's early conflicts. This work seeks to remedy this by shedding new light on early US religious and military history.

Testing monetarism / / Meghnad Desai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973811503321
• Autore: Desai Meghnad
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013
• ISBN: 9781472553836; 1472553837
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Bloomsbury Academic collections : economics
• Disciplina: 332.4/6/0724; 332.46
• Soggetti: Monetary policy - Mathematical models; Money - Mathematical models
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reprint. Originally published in 1981 by Frances Pinter (Publishers) Limited.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. The Quantity Theory of Money -- 2. From the Quantity Theory to Monetarism -- 3. The Methodology of Testing Economic Theories -- 4. The Evidence on Monetarist Claims -- 5. Has Monetarism Failed? -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Testing Monetarism pursues the complex question of the nature of the controversy surrounding monetarist theory and evidence, and the reasons for the persistence of this controversy. The theory of monetarism is examined in its old guise as the Quantity Theory of Money, and subsequent chapters look at the evolution of the theory to its present form in the period since the 1950's, and Desai weaves together issues of theory with those of econometric evidence. He looks in turn at major predictions of monetarism, critically examining the claims made in the literature in the light of his discussion of the methodology of testing theories and highlights flaws in the empirical data surrounding monetarism."--Bloomsbury Publishing.