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 interwa...

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