Pacifism in the Twentieth Century : A Survey from Antiquity to the Outset of the Twentieth Century

by BROCK PETER

• ISBN13: 9780815681250
• ISBN10: 0815681259
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Nigel Young
Acknowledgements	xi
Authors' Note	xii
Illustration Credits	xiii
Illustrations	xvii
Varieties of Pacifism at the Outset of the Twentieth Century	3	(14)
Mennonite Nonresistance	4	(3)
The Quaker Peace Testimony	7	(2)
Bible Students/Jehovah's Witnesses	9	(1)
The Institutional Approach of the Peace Societies	10	(3)
Socialist Antimilitarism	13	(4)
The Pattern of Conscientious Objection: World War I	17	(54)
The Framework of Conscription	18	(3)
Pacifist Organization	21	(12)
Types of Objectors	33	(7)
The Experiences of the Objectors	40	(18)
Conscientious Objection outside Britain and the United States	58	(13)
Gandhi as a Pacifist	71	(21)
The Roots of Gandhi's Nonviolence	72	(2)
The Practice of ``Satyagraha''	74	(7)
``Satyagraha'' and War	81	(11)
Pacifism and War Resistance: The Interwar Years	92	(59)
The Community of War Resisters	92	(14)
The Pacifist Critique of War	106	(11)
Pacifism and the Growth of Totalitarianism	117	(16)
Politics and the Gospel of Reconciliation	133	(18)
The Pattern of Conscientious Objection: World War II	151	(70)
British Objectors: Service v. Witness	155	(16)
American Objectors: Camp v. Prison	171	(32)
Conscientious Objection outside Britain and the United States	203	(18)
Two Case Studies in Post-Gandhian Nonviolence	221	(25)
India's Gentle Anarchists	222	(7)
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States	229	(17)
Pacifism and War Resistance: The Cold War Years, PT. 1	246	(29)
Pacifists in Campaigns for Nuclear Disarmament: Britian 1957-65	250	(4)
Nonviolent Direct Action for Peace	254	(9)
War and Conscientious Objection: USA in the Vietnam Era	263	(12)
Pacifism and War Resistance: The Cold War Years, PT. 2	275	(26)
Pacifists and Wars of National Liberation: the Case of Vietnam	275	(16)
The American Pacifist Impulse and Vietnam	291	(10)
Pacifism and the ``New'' Conscientious Objection	301	(31)
Conscientious Objectors in Selected Countries, 1960s to Early 1990s: Western Europe	302	(11)
Conscientious Objectors in Selected Countries, 1960s to Early 1990s: Eastern Europe	313	(6)
The ``New'' Conscientious Objector in Uniform: The Case of Israel	319	(2)
War Tax Objectors	321	(11)
The Historic Peace Churches Since 1945	332	(34)
Developing Quaker Peacemaking	334	(11)
Pacifist Renewal among Mennonites and Brethren	345	(21)
Religious Pacifist Outreach Since 1945	366	(31)
Catholicism	367	(12)
Judaism	379	(7)
Nonviolence and the Palestinian Arabs	386	(11)
Conclusions	397	(8)
Further Reading and Reference: Books and Pamphlets	405	(16)
Appendix	421	(4)
Index	425