Radical Pacifism In Modern America

Author : Marian Mollin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812202823

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Radical Pacifism in Modern America by Marian Mollin Pdf

Radical Pacifism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent from 1940 to 1970. Using traditional archival material and oral history sources, Marian Mollin examines how gender and race shaped and limited the political efforts of radical pacifist women and men, highlighting how activists linked pacifism to militant masculinity and privileged the priorities of its predominantly white members. In spite of the invisibility that this framework imposed on activist women, the history of this movement belies accounts that relegate women to the margins of American radicalism and mixed-sex political efforts. Motivated by a strong egalitarianism, radical pacifist women rejected separatist organizing strategies and, instead, worked alongside men at the front lines of the struggle to construct a new paradigm of social and political change. Their compelling examples of female militancy and leadership challenge the essentialist association of female pacifism with motherhood and expand the definition of political action to include women's political work in both the public and private spheres. Focusing on the vexed alliance between white peace activists and black civil rights workers, Mollin similarly details the difficulties that arose at the points where their movements overlapped and challenges the seemingly natural association between peace and civil rights. Emphasizing the actions undertaken by militant activists, Radical Pacifism in Modern America illuminates the complex relationship between gender, race, activism, and political culture, identifying critical factors that simultaneously hindered and facilitated grassroots efforts at social and political change.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Pacifism
ISBN : LCCN:79004783

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Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America by Peter Brock Pdf

The Description for this book, Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America, will be forthcoming.

Author : James Tracy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226811301

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Direct Action by James Tracy Pdf

Direct Action tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists"—nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin—played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with their methods and ethos. Genealogies of the Civil Rights, antiwar, and antinuclear movements in this period are incomplete without understanding the history of radical pacifism. Taking us through the Vietnam war protests, this detailed treatment of radical pacifism reveals the strengths and limitations of American individualism in the modern era.

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Evil, Non-resistance to
ISBN : NYPL:33433068199516

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New Wars for Old by John Haynes Holmes Pdf

Author : James Tracy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Pacifism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004436577

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Forging Dissent in an Age of Consensus by James Tracy Pdf

Author : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1330716515

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New Wars for Old, Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force, Versus Non-Resistance by John Haynes Holmes Pdf

Excerpt from New Wars for Old, Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force, Versus Non-Resistance: With Special Reference to the Facts and Problems of the Great War And yet it is in this hour of universal ruin, that the gospel of force is being preached with a vigour which has never been known before! On every side we are being told that, in the world of men as in the world of beasts, there is no security save in tooth and claw. Books and pamphlets are pouring from the presses in an endless flood, to warn us of the perils of defense lessness, by which is meant a reliance upon interna tional goodwill which scorns the mailed fist and the clashing sword, and the need of preparation, by which is meant arming ourselves to the teeth against our neighbours. We have even been called upon to witness, during the last few months, the spectacle of a. Group of men, gathered self-consciously in Independence Hall, in the brave attempt to organise a movement for the establishment of peace by force! Obsessed with the idea that the security of the world is threatened by one nation, namely Germany, and that peace can be se cured by the destruction of one militaristic machine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Joseph Kip Kosek
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 9780231144193

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Acts of Conscience by Joseph Kip Kosek Pdf

In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media. Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, these "acts of conscience" included sit-ins, boycotts, labor strikes, and conscientious objection to war. Beginning with World War I and ending with the ascendance of Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Kip Kosek traces the impact of A. J. Muste, Richard Gregg, and other radical Christian pacifists on American democratic theory and practice. These dissenters found little hope in the secular ideologies of Wilsonian Progressivism, revolutionary Marxism, and Cold War liberalism, all of which embraced organized killing at one time or another. The example of Jesus, they believed, demonstrated the immorality and futility of such violence under any circumstance and for any cause. Yet the theories of Christian nonviolence are anything but fixed. For decades, followers have actively reinterpreted the nonviolent tradition, keeping pace with developments in politics, technology, and culture. Tracing the rise of militant nonviolence across a century of industrial conflict, imperialism, racial terror, and international warfare, Kosek recovers radical Christians' remarkable stance against the use of deadly force, even during World War II and other seemingly just causes. His research sheds new light on an interracial and transnational movement that posed a fundamental, and still relevant, challenge to the American political and religious mainstream.

Author : Scott H. Bennett,Charles F. Howlett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Leilah Danielson,Marian Mollin,Doug Rossinow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319731209

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The Religious Left in Modern America by Leilah Danielson,Marian Mollin,Doug Rossinow Pdf

This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left. The volume covers a diversity of perspectives, including Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish history, and important essays on African-American, Latino, and women’s spirituality. Taken together, these essays offer a comparative and long-term perspective on religious groups and social movements often studied in isolation, and fully integrate faith-based action into the history of progressive social movements and politics in the modern United States. It becomes clear that throughout the twentieth century, religious faith has served as a powerful motivator and generator for activism, not just as on the right, where observers regularly link religion and politics, but on the left. This volume will appeal to historians of modern American politics, religion, and social movements, religious studies scholars, and contemporary activists.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Susan Burgess,Kate Leeman
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452292267

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CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States by Susan Burgess,Kate Leeman Pdf

This unique guide will provide an overview of radical U.S. political movements on both the left and the right sides of the ideological spectrum, with a focus on analyzing the origins and trajectory of the various movements and the impact that movement ideas and activities have had on mainstream American politics. The work is organized thematically, with each chapter focusing on a prominent arena of radical activism in the United States. The chapters will trace the chronological development of these extreme leftist and rightist movements throughout U.S. history. Each chapter will include a discussion of central individuals, organizations, and events as well as their impact on popular opinion, political discourse and public policy. For movements that have arisen multiple times throughout U.S. history (nativism, religious, radical labor, separatists), the chapter will trace the history over time but the analysis will emphasize its most recent manifestations. Sidebar features will be included in each chapter to provide additional contextual information to facilitate increased understanding of the topic.

Author : Charles Howlett,Christian Philip Peterson,Deborah D. Buffton,David L. Hostetter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197549087

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The Oxford Handbook of Peace History by Charles Howlett,Christian Philip Peterson,Deborah D. Buffton,David L. Hostetter Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Peace History uniquely explores the distinctive dynamics of peacemaking across time and place, and analyzing how past and present societies have created diverse cultures of peace and applied strategies for peaceful change. The analysis draws upon the expertise of many well-respected and distinguished scholars from disciplines such as anthropology, economics, history, international relations, journalism, peace studies, sociology, and theology. This work is divided into six parts. The first three sections address the chronological sweep of peace history from the Ancient Egyptians to the present while the last three cover biographical profiles of peace advocates, key issues in peace history, and the future of peace history. A central theme throughout is that the quest for peace is far more than the absence of war or the pursuit of social justice ideals. Students and scholars, alike, will appreciate that this work examines the field of peace history from an international perspective and expands analysis beyond traditional Eurocentric frameworks. This volume also goes far beyond previously published handbooks and anthologies in answering what are the strengths and limits of peace history as a discipline, and what can it offer for the future. It also has the unique features of a state-of-the-field introduction with a detailed treatment of peace history historiography and a chapter written by a noted archivist in the field that provides a comprehensive list of peace research resources. It is a work ably suited applicable for classrooms and scholarly bookshelves"--

Author : G. Kurt Piehler,Sidney Pash
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823231201

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The United States and the Second World War by G. Kurt Piehler,Sidney Pash Pdf

In this text, Piehler and Pash bring together a collection of essays offering an examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the US to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory and more

Author : Charles F. Howlett,Audrey Cohan
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809335046

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John Dewey, America's Peace-Minded Educator by Charles F. Howlett,Audrey Cohan Pdf

Although his work and life have been well documented, John Dewey's role in the postwar peace movement has been generally overlooked. In America's Peace-Minded Educator, the authors take a close look at John Dewey's many undertakings on behalf of world peace.