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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961242203321

Autore

Gwinn Kristen E

Titolo

Emily Greene Balch : the long road to internationalism / / Kristen E. Gwinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-94158-5

9786612941580

0-252-09015-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Classificazione

15.50

Disciplina

303.6/6

B

Soggetti

Pacifists - United States

Women pacifists - United States

Women and peace - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a citizen of the world -- The service of goodness, 1867-85 -- Characteristic of my generation, 1885-96 -- Twenty happy and busy years, 1896-1914 -- Tragic interruption, 1914-18 -- A basis for a new human civilisation, 1918-29 -- The world chose disaster, 1930-41 -- The things I leave undone, 1942-61 -- Conclusion : if we have a long road ahead of us, we have also come a long way.

Sommario/riassunto

Emily Greene Balch was an important Progressive Era reformer and advocate for world peace whose opposition to WWI resulted with the board of trustees at Wellesley College refusing to renew her contract as a professor of economics and sociology. Afterwards, Balch cofounded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). For her advocacy efforts in preventing and reconciling conflicts, Balch was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1946._x000B_In tracing Balch's work, Kristen E. Gwinn draws on a rich collection of primary sources such as letters, lectures, a draft of Balch's autobiography, and proceedings of the WILPF and other organizations in which Balch held leadership roles. Gwinn illuminates Balch's ideas on negotiated peace, internationalism, global citizenship, and diversity. Gwinn details Balch's academic



research on Slavic immigration and her arguments for greater cultural and monetary cohesion in Europe._x000B_