Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors xiii
5. 1 Peter Brock as a Historian of World-wide Pacifism: An Appreciation 1
6. Part I: APPROACHES TO PEACE HISTORY
7. 2 Ten Distinctions for Peace Historians 15
8. 3 Thinking about Peace in History 36
9. 4 Jacob ter Meulen and Bart de Ligt as Pioneers of Peace History 52
10. PART II: CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS OF PACIFISM AND NON-RESISTANCE
11. Introduction 75
12. 5 Non-violence and Women's Resistance in Early Christianity 79
13. 6 War as a Moral Problem in the Early Church: The Historian's Hermeneutical Assumptions 90
14. 7 Anabaptists and the Sword Revisited: The Trend from Radicalism to Apoliticism 111
15. 8 The Brethren and Non-resistance 125
16. 9 The ‘Lamb’s War’ and the Origins of the Quaker Peace Testimony 145
17. 10 ‘The Things That Make for Peace’ The Context of Pacifism in Quaker Pennsylvania 159
18. 11 Quaker Women and the Pacifist Impulse in Britain, 1900-1920 182
19. 12 The Quaker Peace Testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize 207
20. PART III: GANDHI AND THE INDIAN TRADITION OF NON-VIOLENCE
21. 13 Hirhsa and Ahimsa Traditions in Hinduism 225
22. 14 Peace and Non-violence in Buddhism 240
23. 15 Gandhi, Tolstoy, and the Tolstoyans 260
24. 16 Gandhi's Non-violence: Metaphysical, Moral, Political, and International Aspects 278
25. PART IV: PACIFISM AND PEACE MOVEMENTS IN THE MODERN WORLD, 1890-1955
26. Introduction 299
27. 17 The Reinvention of the 'Just War' among European Pacifists before the First World War 303
28. 18 Themes and Contradictions in the American Peace Movement, 1895-1917 320
29. 19 Pacifism and Revolution: Bertrand Russell and Russia, 1914-1920 341
30. 20 ‘Transnationalism’ in the Early Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 362
31. 21 A Question of Respectability and Tactics: Vera Brittain and Food Relief for Occupied Europe, 1941-1944 384
32. 22 Ambivalence in the Post-Second World War French Peace Movement, 1946-1952 397
33. 23 The Dilemma of Canadian Pacifists during the Early Cold War Years 413
34. Bibliography: Books and Articles on Peace History by Peter Brock 425
35. Index 429