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Against the draft : essays on conscientious objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War
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Against the draft : essays on conscientious objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War

Author: Peter Brock
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Essay : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Includes essays on various facets of the anti-draft movement, including the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition of military exemption that started with the outset of the Radical Reformation in 1525. This  Read more...

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Genre/Form: [études diverses]
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Brock
ISBN: 9780802090737 0802090737
OCLC Number: 145774789
Description: xii, 462 p. : portr. ; 24 cm.
Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword by Martin Ceadel Acknowledgments Introduction Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814--1902 Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia The Skarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan 'Boy Conscription' in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914 -- February 1917 Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War Jehovah's Witnesses as Conscientious Objectors in Nazi Germany Index
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