Books written by Peter Brock
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Pioneers of a Peaceable Kingdom: The Quaker Peace Testimony from the Colonial Era to the First World War
Evans, Joshua, A Journal of the Life, Travels, Religious Exercises, and Labours in the Work of the Ministry of Joshua Evans, late of Newton Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, Byberry (Pa.), 1837. Evans, William, Journal of the ...
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Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War
bours in the Work of the Ministry of Joshua Evans, late of Newton Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, Byberry (Pa.), 1837. Evans, William, Journal of the Life and Religious Services of William Evans, a Minister of the Gospel in the ...
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Pacifism in Europe to 1914
It was published without an author's name—understandably, since its anonymity hid the person of a London Quaker merchant, Richard Finch. Finch dedicates his booklet to the Duke of Cumberland, for him an “illustrious hero.
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The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective
42 In a useful article , which is however acknowledged to be no more than introductory , Rebecca Sherrick examines the concept of ' universal sisterhood ' as illustrated in the women's international movement before , during , and ...
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Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War
The only signatory of note was Stephen Symonds Foster (1809–81), who had indeed been briefly imprisoned as a militia objector during his student days at Dartmouth College, from which he had graduated in 1838.
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Neues vom Tatort Tegel: 25 Geschichten von Stars der deutschsprachigen Krimiszene
Ob es ihnen Spaß machte, dich auf dem blanken Schiffsboden liegen zu sehen, in Fesseln? Keiner weiß es, nur das Meer, und das kennt keine Zeugen. Ich habe dich so geliebt. Ich liebe dich immer noch, Marlen, es hat niemals aufgehört.
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Polish Revolutionary Populism: A Study in Agrarian Socialist Thought From the 1830s to the 1850s
Ltd for such permission in regard to my study 'The socialists of the Polish “Great Emigration,” ' in Asa Briggs and John Saville, eds, Essays in Labour History: In Memory of G.D.H. Cole (London 1960; new edn, 1967).
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Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War
In this volume, Peter Brock, one of the foremost historians of American pacifism, seeks to remedy this oversight by presenting a rich and varied collection of documents, many drawn from obscure sources, that shed new light on American ...
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Corvette Sting Ray: Genesis of an American Icon
Winner of the 2013 Motor Press Guild's prestigious Dean Batchelor Award for Best Automotive Journalism across all categories of video/film, books, articles and photography, this book tells the fascinating inside story behind the creation of ...
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Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945
22 Conscientious Objection and Popular Culture : The Case of Lew Ayres JENNIFER FROST In late March 1942 , only a few months after the United States entered the Second World War , actor Lew Ayres ( 1908–1996 ) announced that his ...
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Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America
whose views on war are considered in my Pacifism in the U.S. Though unwilling to accept Noyes's later communitarian ... for the saints cannot learn war any more—no gibbet, for life is regarded as inviolate—no chains, for all are free.
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Freedom from War: Nonsectarian Pacifism, 1814-1914
Brock (history emeritus, U. of Toronto) presents peace activism as historically including two groups: those who reject war on grounds of conscience, and the internationalists who, without the same commitment...
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The Quaker Peace Testimony 1660 to 1914
The Quaker Peace Testimony 1660 to 1914
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Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War
In this volume, Peter Brock, one of the foremost historians of American pacifism, seeks to remedy this oversight by presenting a rich and varied collection of documents, many drawn from obscure sources, that shed new light on American ...
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Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War
The contributors to this volume - from Poland and abroad - closely examine the role played by historians in both the documenting and shaping of Poland's history.
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Katz: Ben Israel, the Early Years from Flatbush to the Burning Bush
They know it, and so I am not in that dimension. I am not known, or if I am known, I am either little known or scorned. -Art Katz interview (2001)
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Pacifism in the Twentieth Century
For college students and general readers, surveys the various movements advocating personal nonparticipation in war of any kind as a first step in finding nonviolent means for resolving conflict. Considers...
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The Slovak National Awakening: An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe
The Slovak National Awakening describes the three major stages in the development of national consciousness.
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Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War
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.
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Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War
Included in the collection are essays on little known facets of the anti-draft movement including the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition of military exemption that started with the outset of the Radical Reformation in 1525 and has continued, ...