Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Part One. Two Northern Luminaries in the Peace Cause: Nobel and Bjørnson
5. I. Alfred Nobel: His Interest in Norway and in Peace 3
6. II. Bjørnson’s Interest in Peace 16
7. Part Two. The Peace Movement in Norway
8. III. The Peace Movement and Other Liberal Causes 33
9. IV. Early Efforts to Organize 46
10. V. The Norwegian Peace Union: Earlier Period 55
11. VI. The Peace Union: A General Survey 70
12. Part Three. The Storting and the Peace Cause
13. VII. The Swedish-Norwegian Tension (1892–95) and Later Political Developments 85
14. VIII. The Storting Supports Various Peace Endeavors 102
15. IX. Peace and Unionist Politics 117
16. Part Four. The Storting’s Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute
17. Χ. Implementing Nobel’s Will 135
18. XI. Plans for a Nobel Institute 147
19. XII. The Institute in Its Advisory Capacity 164
20. XIII. Direct Support of the Peace Cause 180
21. XIV. Bjørnson and the Nobel Committee 191
22. XV. Personnel of the Committee 207
23. XVI. Candidates and Prize Winners 231
24. Part Five. Censure and Appraisal
25. XVII. Criticism, Specific and General 247
26. XVIII. The Background Reconsidered 272
27. Appendices 289
28. Bibliography 301
29. Index 321