Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War

Peter Brock

Published by University of Toronto Press 2006

Against the Draft

Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War

Peter Brock

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627215

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Against the Draft makes an important contribution to the growing study of pacifism and conscientious objection, and represents a key work in the career of the field's foremost scholar.

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Brock Peter :

Peter Brock is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Foreword Martin Ceadel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
2. A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4. Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
5. Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
6. The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
7. Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
8. When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
9. Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814–1902 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
10. Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
11. Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
12. The Škarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
13. The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
14. ‘Boy Conscription’ in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
15. Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
16. Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
17. Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
18. The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
19. Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914 – February 1917 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
20. Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
21. Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
22. Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
23. Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
24. British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
25. Jehovah’s Witnesses as Conscientious Objectors in Nazi Germany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 544

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Published: December 15, 2006
ISBN: 9781442627215