Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Every generation needs to be reminded of and taught the heavy price exacted by war."—Murray Polner,
History News Network"
Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America is a collection of vibrant and diverse sources and voices. It is an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to know more about the subject, a useful tool for those working in the area, and a key resource for those teaching the history of civil liberties, working for peace and the value of dissent in democratic societies."—Rebecca Wynter,
Quaker Studies“[This is] an extremely important contribution . . . bringing together sources from both the radical and mainstream aspects of antiwar activism.”—Cecelia Lynch, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics
“Experts in the field, Scott Bennett and Charles Howlett provide a valuable new collection of original source documents that provide fresh and insightful understanding of peace activism, dissent and the issue of civil liberties in America in World War I.”—John Whiteclay Chambers II, author of To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
“Accessible to scholars and the general public alike, this wonderful volume brings to life those men and women who envisioned a better world and fought ‘to end all wars.’”—Wendy E. Chmielewski, George R. Cooley Curator, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction1. Peace Organizations
2. Socialists, Anarchists, and Wobblies
3. Citizen Peace Agitators
4. Female Activism and Gendered Peacework
5. African American and Ethnic American Antiwar Dissent
6. Conscientious Objectors
7. Repression and Civil Liberties
8. The Cultural Front and Antiwar Protest
9. Peace Humanitarianism Abroad
10. Aftermath and Legacies
Selected Bibliography
