The First American Peace Movement - Hardcover

The First American Peace Movement : comprising War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ; The Lawfulness of War for Christians, Examined; [and] A Solemn Review of the Custom of War

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of three works, originally published in 1905, 1814, and 1815, respectively: War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ, by David low Dodge, with an intrododuction by Edwin D. Mead; The Lawfulness of War for Christians, examined, by James Mott; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War, by Noah Worcester. "Influenced to some extent by the ideas of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment; Dodge and Worcester made use of the utilitarian case against war alongside religious arguments (though neither they nor other early nineteenth-century advocates of peace penetrated very deeply into the economic causes of conflict). They were divided, however, concerning the limits of pacifism." - new introduction by Peter Brock. ; The Garland Library of War and Peace; Ex-Library; 11, xx, 168, 33, 23 pages. Artikel-Nr. 14725

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