Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader

Author:   Scott H. Bennett ,  Charles F. Howlett ,  Scott H. Bennett ,  Charles F. Howlett
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 October 2014
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Author:   Scott H. Bennett ,  Charles F. Howlett ,  Scott H. Bennett ,  Charles F. Howlett
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9780803240117


ISBN 10:   0803240112
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 October 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction1.  Peace Organizations 2.  Socialists, Anarchists, and Wobblies 3.  Citizen Peace Agitators 4.  Female Activism and Gendered Peacework 5.  African American and Ethnic American Antiwar Dissent 6.  Conscientious Objectors 7.  Repression and Civil Liberties 8.  The Cultural Front and Antiwar Protest 9.  Peace Humanitarianism Abroad 10. Aftermath and Legacies Selected Bibliography

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Every generation needs to be reminded of and taught the heavy price exacted by war. -Murray Polner, History News Network -- Murray Polner History News Network [This is] an extremely important contribution ... bringing together sources from both the radical and mainstream aspects of antiwar activism. -Cecelia Lynch, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics -- Cecelia Lynch Experts in the field, Scott Bennett and Charles Howlett provide a valuable new collection of original source documents that provide fresh and insightful understanding of peace activism, dissent and the issue of civil liberties in America in World War I. -John Whiteclay Chambers II, author of To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America -- John Whiteclay Chambers II Accessible to scholars and the general public alike, this wonderful volume brings to life those men and women who envisioned a better world and fought 'to end all wars.' -Wendy E. Chmielewski, George R. Cooley Curator, Swarthmore College Peace Collection -- Wendy E. Chmielewski


Accessible to scholars and the general public alike, this wonderful volume brings to life those men and women who envisioned a better world and fought 'to end all wars.' --Wendy E. Chmielewski, George R. Cooley Curator, Swarthmore College Peace Collection--Wendy E. Chmielewski (03/28/2014)


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Scott H. Bennett is a professor of history at Georgian Court University. He is the author of Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–1963. Charles F. Howlett is a professor of education at Molloy College. He is the author of  History of the American Peace Movement, 1890–2000: The Emergence of a New Scholarly Discipline.

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