Challenge to Mars : : Pacifism from 1918 to 1945 / / ed. by Peter Brock, Thomas P. Socknat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Austad, Torleiv,; Berg, Henk Van Den,; Brock, Peter,; Ceadel, Martin,; Cookson, I.E.,; Coppes, Ton,; Durnbaugh, Donald F.,; Eglin, Josephine,; Farrugia, Peter,; Frost, Jennifer,; Gara, Larry,; Goossen, Rachel Waltner,; Grünewald, Guido,; Hackman, Thomas,; Hansen, Peter Kragh,; Huumo, Katja,; Ingram, Norman,; Klippenstein, Lawrence,; Kozhuvanal, Antony,; McNaught, Kenneth,; Noordegraaf, Herman,; Pois, Anne Marie,; Powles, Cyril H.,; Rigby, Andrew,; Robinson, Mitchell L.,; Saunders, Malcolm,; Smith, Lyn,; Socknat, Thomas P.,; Steeves, Paul D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Brock, Peter,; Socknat, Thomas P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)

Emerging in 1918 from the devastation of World War I, the modern pacifist movement expanded rapidly and soon became organized on a transnational basis. These essays present aspects of the movement's development to the end of the Second World War.The fourteen essays in Part I look at the interwar years, which gave rise to an array of pacifist organizations, both religious and humanist, throughout Europe and North America. Twelve essays in Part II deal with the brutal challenge to pacifist ideals posed by the Second World War and include a look at the fate of those courageous Germans who refused to fight for Hitler. The struggles of Christian pacifism in Japan and the satyagraha (non-violent soul force) of Gandhi in India are the focus of the two closing studies (Part III). These twenty-eight essays by scholars from eleven countries present an impressive overview of this remarkable movement, at the same time drawing out many little-known areas of pacifist activity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part One. From Peace to War -- 1. Mennonites and Military Service in the Soviet Union to 1939 -- 2. Russian Baptists and the Military Question, 1918-1929 -- 3. Pacifism and Conscientious Objection in Finland, 1918-1945 -- 4. In Search of a 'Lost' Belarusan Pacifist Leader -- 5. War Resisters in Weimar Germany -- 6. The Anarchopacifism of Bart de Ligt -- 7. The Conviction of Things Not Seen: Christian Pacifism in France, 1919-1945 -- 8. Defending the Rights of Man: The Ligue des droits de l’homme and the Problem of Peace -- 9. A Legitimate Peace Movement: The Case of Britain, 1918-1945 -- 10. Women Pacifists in Interwar Britain -- 11. The Peace Pledge Union: From Peace to War, 1936-1945 -- 12. J.S. Woodsworth and War -- 13. 'Practical' and Absolute Pacifism in the Early Years of the U.S. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -- 14. The Fight against War of the Historic Peace Churches, 1919-1941 -- Part Two. The Second World War -- 15. Quakers in Uniform: The Friends Ambulance Unit -- 16. Conscientious Objection in Canada -- 17. Pacifists as Conscientious Objectors in Australia -- 18 Pacifism and Conscientious Objection in New Zealand -- 19. Conscience and Conscription in a Free Society: U.S. Civilian Public Service -- 20. Pacifist Professional Women on the Job in the United States -- 21. Prison Journey of an American War Resister -- 22. Conscientious Objection and Popular Culture: The Case of Lew Ay res -- 23. Conscientious Objectors in Nazi Germany -- 24. Danish War Resisters under Nazi Occupation -- 25. Pacifists in Nazi-Occupied Norway -- 26. For Church and Peace: Dutch Christian Pacifists under Nazi Occupation -- Part Three. Pacifist Outreach: Japan and India -- 27. Pacifism in Japan, 1918-1945 -- 28. Gandhi's Satyagraha and Its Roots in India's Past -- Illustration Credits -- Index