Format:
1 online resource (477 pages)
ISBN:
9781442627215
Series Statement:
Heritage
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians -- 2 A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) -- 3 Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden -- 4 Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy -- 5 Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France -- 6 The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question -- 7 Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands -- 8 When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America -- 9 Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814-1902 -- 10 Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary -- 11 Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia -- 12 The Škarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan -- 13 The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan -- 14 'Boy Conscription' in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters -- 15 Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars -- 16 Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War -- 17 Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists -- 18 The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany -- 19 Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914-February 1917 -- 20 Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union -- 21 Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 -- 22 Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland -- 23 Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain -- 24 British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802090737
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802090737
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4670077
