Pacifism in Europe to 1914

Peter Brock

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691619729, 9780691046082
• eBook ISBN: 9781400867493
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

In a companion volume to Pacifism in the United States, Peter Brock surveys the history of the pacifist movement in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the First World War. His detailed narrative is directed to the activities—and the beliefs that motivated them—of these sects in particular: the Czech Brethren of the late Middle Ages; the radical Anabaptists of the Protestant Reformation; their less militant offshoot, the Mennonites; the Quakers of Cromwell's England; and the Tolstoyans of nineteenth-century Russia. Mr. Brock concludes his account with a working definition of normative pacifism, a typology of pacifism, and a discussion of the factors present in the genesis and decay of pacifist groups.

Originally published in 1972.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction. Antimilitarism in the Early Christian Church
• 1. Medieval Sectarian Pacifism: The Czech Brethren
• 2. The Early Anabaptists
• 3. The Later Anabaptists (From Munster to Menno)
• 4. The Polish Antitrinitarians
• 5. The Dutch Mennonites
• 6. The German Mennonites (to the Age of the Democratic Revolution)
• 7. The British Quakers (Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)
• 8. The British Quakers (Eighteenth Century)
• 9. The British Quakers (Nineteenth Century)
• 10. Non-Quaker Pacifism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• 11. The Later German Mennonites (From the Democratic Revolution to the First World War)
• 12. Russian Sectarian Pacifism: The Tolstoyans
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Bibliographical Notes
• Bibliographical Postscript
• Index