Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War

Peter Brock

Published by Princeton University Press 1968

Pacifism in the United States

From the Colonial Era to the First World War

Peter Brock

Volume 2292 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400878376

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Called "a pioneer work of the first importance" by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects-Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker -faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists.

Originally published in 1968.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Pacifism, in Colonial America and the American Revolution
Chapter 1. The Society of Friends in the Colonial Period outside Pennsylvania Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. The Pacifist as Magistrate: The Holy Experiment in Quaker Pennsylvania Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 3. Quaker Pennsylvania: The Crisis of 1756 and Its Aftermath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 4. The German Peace Sects in Colonial America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 5. Quakers and the American Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 6. The Smaller Peace Sects in the American Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter 7. The Peace Testimony of the Early American Moravians: An Ambiguous Witness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Part Two: The Peace Sects from the American Revolution to the Civil War
Chapter 8. The Quaker Peace Testimony, 1783-1861 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Chapter 9. The Witness of the Non-Quaker Peace Sects, 1783-1861 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Part Three: Pacifism in the American Peace Movement before the Civil War
Chapter 10. The Pioneers: Dodge and Worcester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Chapter 11. The American Peace Society: The First Decade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	482
Chapter 12. The Genesis of the Garrisonian Formula: No-Government and Nonresistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
Chapter 13. The New England Non-Resistance Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
Chapter 14. The Ideology of the New England Non-Resistance Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
Chapter 15. The Moderate Pacifists and the League of Universal Brotherhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	616
Chapter 16. The Ebbing of the Pacifist Impulse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Part IV: Pacifism in the American Civil War
Chapter 17. The Civil War and the Antebellum Pacifists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	689
Chapter 18. The Quakers in the Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	713
Chapter 19. Mennonites and Brethren in the Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	780
Chapter 20. Religious Pacifism outside the Major Historic Peace Sects, 1861-1865 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	822
Part V. Pacifism between the Civil War and the First World War
Chapter 21. The Quaker Peace Testimony, 1865-1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	869
Chapter 22. Non-Quaker Sectarian Pacifism in an Era of Peace, 1865-1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	889
Chapter 23. The Reemergence of Nonsectarian Pacifism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	920
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	943
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	949
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	985