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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778900903321

Autore

Cooper Sandi E

Titolo

Patriotic pacifism [[electronic resource] ] : waging war on war in Europe, 1815-1914 / / Sandi E. Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1991

ISBN

0-19-771527-3

0-19-992338-8

1-280-52374-3

0-19-536343-4

0-585-35665-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/72/094

Soggetti

Peace movements - Europe - History

Pacifism - History

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 (p. 277-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Debut of European Peace Movements, 1815-1850: From Elite Prescriptions to Middle-Class Participation; 2. Peace Movements and the Challenge of Nationalism, 1850-1889; 3. Pacifism and Internationalism: The Creation of a Transnational Lobby, 1889-1914; 4. Arbitration: The Search for Persuasive Propaganda; 5. Arms Control: The Dilemma of Patriotic Pacifism; 6. War: The Anatomy of an Anachronism; 7. Pacifism and Contemporary Crises; 8. The Collapse; 9. Conclusion; Appendix A. Peace Societies, 1815-1914; Appendix B. International Congresses, 1889-1914

Appendix C. Rescript of Tsar Nicholas II, 24 August 1898Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the liberalized reconfiguration of civil society and political practice in nineteenth-century Europe, the right to make foreign policy, devise alliances, wage war and negotiate peace remained essentially an executive prerogative. Citizen challenges to the exercise of this power grew slowly. Drawn from the educated middle classes, peace activists maintained that Europe was a single culture despite national animosities; that Europe needed rational inter-state relationships to



avoid catastrophe; and that internationalism was the logical outgrowth of the nation-state, not its subversion. I