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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797879603321

Autore

Brock Peter <1920-2006, >

Titolo

Radical pacifists in antebellum America / / Peter Brock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1968

©1968

ISBN

0-691-64912-X

1-4008-7873-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Princeton Legacy Library

Disciplina

341.1

Soggetti

Pacifism

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

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Pioneers of the American Peace Movement: Dodge and Worcester -- Chapter 2. The American Peace Society: The First Decade -- Chapter 3. The Genesis of the Garrisonian Formula: No-Government and Non-resistance -- Chapter 4. The New England Non-Resistance Society -- Chapter 5. The Ideology of the New England Non-Resistance Society -- Chapter 6. The Moderate Pacifists and the League of Universal Brotherhood -- Chapter 7. The Ebbing of the Pacifist Impulse -- Chapter 8. The Civil War and the Antebellum Pacifists -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Quakers and the Antebellum Peace Movement -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.