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374 pages ; 23 cm "First edition." "Notes": pages 313-358 Prospect : I. The pioneers, 1636-1860 : Attitudes of colonial American towards peace and war ; The American Revolution: its relation to militarism, antimilitarism, and pacifism ; The Jefferson Embargo as an instrument for keeping out of Europe's wars in the Napoleonic period ; War of 1812: defeatism, pacifist opposition ; The origins of the peace movement ; The Rush-Bagot Convention ; Philosophy and tactics of the pre-Civil War peace movement ; The leaders in the peace crusade ; Failures and achievements -- II. The test of Civil War, 1861-1865 : The effort to compromise and prevent war on the eve of conflict ; Stop the war! copperheads and defeatists; Quakers; pacifists ; Anglo-American controversies: the Trent, the Alabama, attitudes and activities of the American and English friends of peace ; Cleavage between American and British peace movements ; Effects of the Civil War on the peace movement abroad -- III. Renewal of the struggle, 1865-1885 : Resources and leadership ; The stimulus of the European revival of internationalism and pacifism ; "Let us have peace!"; the peace movement and Reconstruction ; The challenge of th

Author

Merle Curti

Publisher

New York: W.W. Norton & Company

Published

1936

Language

EN