Pacifists In Chains

Author : Duane C. S. Stoltzfus
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421411286

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Pacifists in Chains by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus Pdf

Documents the disturbing history of four pacifists imprisoned for their refusal to serve during World War I. To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the military in any way goes against the biblical commandment “thou shalt not kill” and Jesus’s admonition to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the story of four young men—Joseph Hofer, Michael Hofer, David Hofer, and Jacob Wipf—who followed these beliefs and refused to perform military service in World War I. The men paid a steep price for their resistance, imprisoned in Alcatraz and Fort Leavenworth, where the two youngest died. The Hutterites buried the men as martyrs, citing mistreatment. Using archival material, letters from the four men and others imprisoned during the war, and interviews with their descendants, Duane C. S. Stoltzfus explores the tension between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings.

Author : Eric T. Chester
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583678695

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Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I by Eric T. Chester Pdf

World War I, given all the rousing “Over-There” songs and in-the-trenches films it inspired, was, at its outset, surprisingly unpopular with the American public. As opposition increased, Woodrow Wilson’s presidential administration became intent on stifling antiwar dissent. Wilson effectively silenced the National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Presidential candidate Eugene Debs was jailed, and Deb’s Socialist Party became a prime target of surveillance operations, both covert and overt. Drastic as these measures were, more draconian measures were to come. In his absorbing new book, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I, Eric Chester reveals that out of this turmoil came a heated public discussion on the theory of civil liberties – the basic freedoms that are, theoretically, untouchable by any of the three branches of the U.S. government. The famous “clear and present danger” argument of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the “balance of conflicting interest” theory of law professor Zechariah Chafee, for example, evolved to provide a rationale for courts to act as a limited restraint on autocratic actions of the government. But Chester goes further, to examine an alternative theory: civil liberties exist as absolute rights, rather than being dependent on the specific circumstances of each case. Over the years, the debate about the right to dissent has intensified and become more necessary. This fascinating book explains why, a century after the First World War – and in the era of Trump – we need to know about this.

Author : Simon M. Evans
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496225085

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A Geography of the Hutterites in North America by Simon M. Evans Pdf

Simon M Evans analyzes the German-speaking Anabaptist community, focusing on their history of expansion, their patterns of population growth, the additions they make to the cultural landscape of the northern plains, and their contributions to the agricultural and light manufacturing economies of their home states and provinces.

Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476705903

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War Against War by Michael Kazin Pdf

In this story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War,...Kazin brings us into the ranks of the largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated peace coalition up to that point in US history. They came from a variety of backgrounds: wealthy and middle and working class, urban and rural, white and black ... They mounted street demonstrations and popular exhibitions, attracted prominent leaders from the labor and suffrage movements, ran peace candidates for local and federal office, and founded new organizations that endured beyond the cause. For almost three years, they helped prevent Congress from authorizing a massive increase in the size of the US army"

Author : Melissa D. Burrage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Conductors (Music)
ISBN : 9781580469500

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The Karl Muck Scandal by Melissa D. Burrage Pdf

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States.

Author : Scott H. Bennett,Charles F. Howlett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803240117

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Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America by Scott H. Bennett,Charles F. Howlett Pdf

"Publication of these pages is enabled by a grant from Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford."

Author : S. Roy Kaufman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725269897

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The Drama of a Rural Community's Life Cycle by S. Roy Kaufman Pdf

Rural communities depend on the health of the agrarian cultures that compose them. These cultures grow out of the symbiotic relationship between a particular landscape and the human community that lives on and uses the land. Agrarian cultures had their origin in the development of agriculture and gave birth to the civilizations and empires of history. Based on the exercise of hierarchical power characteristic of their nature, empires and civilizations are always a threat to the welfare of their agrarian cultures, that by nature tend to be local, relational, reciprocal, and ecological. This is the story of the three Anabaptist agrarian cultures—Swiss German, Low German, and Hutterian—of the Freeman, South Dakota, rural community, and their sojourn within the empires of civilization through the centuries. More specifically, this is the story of their birth, growth, maturation, and death (or rebirth?) in the particular landscape of the Great Plains to which they came from Russia in the 1870s. Here we see the agrarian cultures’ struggle to adapt to the new environment of the Great Plains and to maintain their unique identity while living within American society. This is the drama of a rural community’s life cycle!

Author : Lyn Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638782737

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Pacifists in Action by Lyn Smith Pdf

Author : Fenggang Yang,Francis Jae-ryong Song,SAKURAI Yoshihide
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783038978084

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Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East by Fenggang Yang,Francis Jae-ryong Song,SAKURAI Yoshihide Pdf

This special issue includes 11 articles from the Inaugural Conference of the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. It offers theoretical and methodological reflections, and covers various religions in different East Asian societies and diasporic communities.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400878734

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Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America by Peter Brock Pdf

Selected portions from Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815630034

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Radical Pacifism by Scott H Bennett Pdf

This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547549217

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To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild Pdf

In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?

Author : Daniel Akst
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612199252

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War By Other Means by Daniel Akst Pdf

"Akst argues that the modern progressive movement, wide-ranging in its causes and narratives today, has origins in the pacifist response to American involvement in World War II... At its best, one gets the sense of generative force born from such intense intellectual, moral and religious pressure." -- The Washington Post Pacifists who fought against the Second World War faced insurmountable odds—but their resistance, philosophy, and strategies fostered a tradition of activism that shaped America right up to the present day. In this provocative and deeply researched work of history, Akst takes readers into the wild, heady, and uncertain times of America on the brink of a world war, following four fascinating resisters -- four figures who would subsequently become famous political thinkers and activists -- and their daring exploits: David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin. The lives of these diverse anti-war advocates--a principled and passionate seminary student, a Catholic anarchist, a high-brow intellectual leftist, and an African-American pacifist and agitator--create the perfect prism through which to see World War II from a new angle, that of the opposition, as well as to show how great and lasting their achievements were. The resisters did not stop the war, of course, but their impact would be felt for decades. Many of them went on to lead the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the two most important social stands of the second half of the twentieth century. The various World War II resisters pioneered non-violent protest in America, popularized Gandhian principles, and desegregated the first prison mess halls. Theirs is a story that has never been told.

Author : Tobias Kelly
Publisher : Random House
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473581838

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Battles of Conscience by Tobias Kelly Pdf

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten. Tobias Kelly invites us to spend the war five of these individuals: Roy Ridgway, a factory clerk from Liverpool; Tom Burns, a teacher from east London; Stella St John, who trained as a vet and ended up in jail; Ronald Duncan, who set up a collective farm; and Fred Urquhart, a working-class Scottish socialist and writer. We meet many more objectors along the way -- people both determined and torn -- and travel from Finland to Syria, India to rural England, Edinburgh to Trinidad. Although conscientious objectors were often criticised and scorned, figures such as Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of Canterbury supported their right to object, at least in principle, suggesting that liberty of conscience was one of the freedoms the nation was fighting for. And their rich cultural and moral legacy -- of humanitarianism and human rights, from Amnesty International and Oxfam to the US civil rights movement -- can still be felt all around us. The personal and political struggles carefully and vividly collected in this book tell us a great deal about personal and collective freedom, conviction and faith, war and peace, and pose questions just as relevant today: Does conscience make us free? Where does it take us? And what are the costs of going there? '[An] excellent book' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving tribute' - SPECTATOR

Author : Duane C.S. Stoltzfus
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252031151

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Freedom from Advertising by Duane C.S. Stoltzfus Pdf

Scripps's daring endeavor to produce a newspaper without advertising