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Pacifism

Here are entered works on the renunciation on moral grounds of offensive or defensive military action. Works on social movements advocating peace are entered under Peace movements.

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• Pacifism in literature

• The American Peace Movements (electronic edition, 2002), by David Adams (HTML at culture-of-peace.info)
• An Alternative to War (New York: Council on Religion and International Affairs, c1963), by Gordon C. Zahn (page images at flvc.org)
• The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism (Chicago: Student Peace Union, ca. 1961), by Philip G. Altbach (page images at Pitt)
• Agents of Peace (New York: Hour Publishers, ca. 1951), by Albert Eugene Kahn (page images at flvc.org)
• Unto What End? (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1914), by B. Langdon-Davies (page images here at Penn)
• A Brief Outline of the Nature and Aims of Pacifism (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), by Alfred H. Fried, trans. by John Richard Mez (page images here at Penn)
• A Dozen Truths About Pacifism (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), by Alfred H. Fried, trans. by John Richard Mez (page images here at Penn)
• Non-resistance; or, The spirit of Christianity restored. / by W.C. Thurman. (Charlottsville [sic] Va., The author, 1862 /), by William C. Thurman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The right and the wrong in our Civil War / by an old soldier. ([S.l. : s.n., 1903?]), by Homer B. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hory trupiv i more krovy ta sliz [electronic resource] : 4 obrazkamy / (Montréal : Nowyj swit, [1916?]), by I. H. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seventh-day Adventists in time of war / (Washington : Review and Herald, c1936), by Francis McLellan Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The substance of a pamphlet, entitled A solemn review of the custom of war : showing that war is the effect of popular delusion, and proposing a remedy. (London : Sold by Hamilton, Adams, 1832), by Noah Worcester and England) Peace Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pour l'abolition des guerres / (Limoges : Imprimerie Nouvelle, 1916), by H. Lepert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An inquiry into the accordancy of war with the principles of Christianity : and an examination of the philosophical reasoning by which it is defended : with observations on some of the causes of war and on some of its effects / (Philadelphia : Tract Association of Friends, [between 1823 and 1825]), by Jonathan Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the Christian Pacifists at Los Angeles, Cal. / (New York City : National Civil Liberties Bureau, [1918]), by Norman Thomas and National Civil Liberties Bureau (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The futility of force : a sermon preached in the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, August 23, 1914 / ([S.l. : s.n., 1914]), by Washington Gladden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Opomnitesʹ, li︠u︡di-bratʹi︠a︡! Istorii︠a︡ vozzvanii︠a︡ edinomyshlennikov L. N. Tolstogo protiv mirovoĭ voĭny 1914-1918 g.g. [t. 1.] (M. [i.e. Moskva] Zadruga, 1922), by Valentin Bulgakov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A statement on this war / (Boston [Mass.] : Free Religious Association of America, [1917]), by John Haynes Holmes and Mass.) Free Religious Association (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statement to my people on the eve of war / (New York City : Church of the Messiah, [1917]), by John Haynes Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of pacifism / (London : League of Peace and Freedom, [1915?]), by Bertrand Russell and League of Peace and Freedom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mistakes of pacifism, or, Why a Christian can have anything to do with war / (London : Charles H. Kelly, 1915), by Frank Ballard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sechs Tatsachen als Grundlage zur Beurteilung der heutigen Machtpolitik / (Bern : Der Freie Verlag, 1918), by Georg Friedrich Nicolai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliographie du movement de la paix : litte rature pacifiste dans la Bibliothe que de l'Institut Nobel norve gien. (Kristiana : H. Aschehoug (W. Nygaard), 1912), by Norske Nobelinstitutt. Biblioteket (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison impressions / (Chorley, Lancashire : Universal Pub. Co., [1917]), by Clara Gilbert Cole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacifism as the unifying thesis of all social reform; a criticism. (Boston, R.G. Badger, the Gorham Press, [1922]), by Charles Kuhlman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for pacifism, ([Columbus, : The Champlin Press, [1915?]), by Washington Gladden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mir i trud / (Berlin : Organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ "Mir i Trud"), by Organizat︠s︡īi︠a︡ "Mir i trud." (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Was Jesus a pacifist? : an address delivered in the Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts, at the morning service, February 25, 1917 / (Norwood, Mass. : Printed for the Standing Committee of the Old South Society by the Plimpton Press, c1917), by George A. Gordon and Mass.) Old South Church (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awake! (Boston, Mass. : Dept. of Business Organizations, International School of Peace, [1909]), by International School of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die historische Entwicklung der Friedens-idee und des Antimilitarismu, (Gautzsch b. Leipzig, F. Dietrich, 1908), by Pierre Ramus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wanted : aggressive pacificism [sic] / (Chicago : Chicago Peace Society, [1915]), by Louis Paul Lochner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginning of the end / (Boston : G.H. Ellis, 1898), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A remonstrance against the spirit of war and some of its manifestations / ([Ohio? : The Meeting], 1895), by Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Razskazy o velikikh sobytii͡akh raznykh vremen i narodov. (1909), by N. A. Rubakin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dr. Robinson's voice in the wilderness. (New York, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Reprint Corp., 1917-20 ;, 1970), by William J. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Wehrfreiheit der altpreussischen Mennoniten : eine geschichtliche Erörterung / (Marienburg : im Selbstverlage der Altpreussischen Mennonitengemeinden : in Commission bei B. Hermann Hemmpels Wwe., 1863), by Wilhelm Mannhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our nation's altar / (Watertown, New York : Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1910), by Asenath Carver Coolidge and Hungerford-Holbrook Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Socialism for pacifists / (Manchester [Eng.] : National Labour Press, [pref. 1916]), by Fenner Brockway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Varieties of Pacifism. (New York : World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, [192-?]), by Charles Edward Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldatskai︠a︡ pami︠a︡tka / (Christchurch, Hants, England : A. Tchertkoff, 1902), by Leo Tolstoy and M. Dragomirov, contrib. by V. G. Chertkov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Atonement and non-resistance : an attempt to show why the death of Christ was necessary, and a suggestion as to its bearing on Christian ethics / (London : Swarthmore Press, [1923?]), by William E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der kranke Krieg. (Leipzig : Alfred Kröner, 1909), by Alfred Hermann Fried (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Soldatskai͡a pami͡atka. Ofit͡serskai͡a pami͡atka / (Christchurch, Hants., Eng. : A. Tchertkoff, 1902), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peace and war. Notes of sermons and addresses (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1917), by Paul B. Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conscientious objector. (New York, National Security League, [1917?]), by George Herbert Mead and National Security League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward pacifism [the convincement and commitment of a young European] (Wallingford, Pa., Pendle Hill, [1950]), by Gunnar Sundberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacifist program in time of war, threatened war, or fascism, ([Wallingford, Pa., Pendle Hill], 1939), by Richard Bartlett Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ and war : the reasonableness of disarmament on Christian, humantarian and economic grounds : a peace study text-book / (London : James Clarke & Co., 1914), by William E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Atonement and non-resistance : an attempt to show why the death of Christ was necessary and a suggestion as to its bearing on Christian ethics / (London : Headley Brothers, 1914), by William E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some observations on the militia system, addressed to the serious consideration of the citizens of Pennsylvania / (Philadelphia : A. Waldie, 1831), by Enoch Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The danger of peace : being the substance of a lecture delivered at King's College, London, on May 19, 1915 / (London : G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915), by J. W. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bases du pacifisme : le pacifisme réformiste et le pacifisme révolutionnaire / (Paris : A. Pedone, Libraire de la Cour d'Appel et de l'Ordre des Avocats, 1909), by Alfred H. Fried and Jean Lagorgette (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Friedens-Union zwischen allen civilisirten Völkern : ein Wort an alle Welt / (Havre : Verlag der Friedens-Union, 1867), by Félix Santallier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The peace prophets; American pacifist thought, 1919-1941, (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1967), by John K. Nelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ghosts of the slain / (Manchester : National Labor Press, 1915), by Robert Leonard Outhwaite and Joseph E. Southall (page images at HathiTrust)
• An alternative to war. (New York; Council on Religion and International Affairs, [1974, c1963]), by Gordon C. Zahn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Neuzheli ėto tak nado? / (Christchurch, Hants, Eng. : A. Tchertkoff, 1900), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Congrès international des sociétés des amis de la paix : tenu à Paris les 26, 27, 28 et 30 septembre et le 1er octobre 1878., by France) Congrès international des sociétés des amis de la paix (1878 : Paris, France. Ministère de l'agriculture et du commerce, and France) Exposition universelle de 1878 (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacifism in time of war / (London : Headley Bros., [1915]), by Carl Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three decades of war resistance, (New York, N. Y., The War resisters league, [1942]), by Jessie Wallace Hughan and War Resisters League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Norman Angellism: how it concerns you / (London : Published by War and Peace Pub. Co. for Garton Foundation, [1914]), by J. B. Sterndale Bennett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il pacifismo di Teodoro Moneta e le nuove dottrine di diritto internazionale di Eduardo Cimbali con polemica. (Perugia, Vincenzo Bartelli & c., 1909), by Ettore Felix and Eduardo Cimbali (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacifism and citizenship : can they coexist? / (Washington, D.C. (1550 M St., NW, Suite 700, Washington 20005) : U.S. Institute of Peace, 1991), by Kimber M. Schraub, Kenneth M. Jensen, and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary bibliography of resources on the history of pacifism and conscientious objection in the Michigan Historical Collections / ([Ann Arbor, Mich.] : Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, [1976]), by William H. McNitt and Michigan Historical Collections (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliography of resources on the history of pacifism and conscientious objection in the Michigan Historical Collections / ([Ann Arbor, Mich.] : Michigan Historical Collections, University of Michigan, 1973), by William H. McNitt and Michigan Historical Collections (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The white cross : a project concerning postwar Europe's mental disarmament (a digest) / (Ann Arbor, Mich. : American Institute for Mental Disarmament, 1943), by Oscar Max Fazekas, Preston W. Slosson, and American Institute for Mental Disarmament (page images at HathiTrust)
• A declaration of the society of people, (commonly called Shakers,) : shewing their reasons for refusing to aid or abet the cause of war and bloodshed, by bearing arms, paying fines, hiring substitutes, or rendering any equivalent for military services. (Albany : Printed by E. & E. Hosford, State-Street, 1815), by Shakers, David Meacham, Seth Y. Wells, Calvin Green, and printer E. & E. Hosford (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une campagne pacifiste pendant la guerre / (Paris : A. Delpeuch, 1926), by Louis Guétant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Caligula ; eine Studie über römischen Cäsarenwahnsinn. (Berlin : Hensel, [1926]), by Ludwig Quidde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Listen to the mockingbird : satiric songs to tunes you know. (New York : Mockingbird Press, 1973), by Tuli Kupferberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darrow-Lewis Debate on the Theory of Non-Resistance. (Chicago : Worker's University Society, 1910), by Clarence Darrow and Arthur M. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace, Not War : The School of Heroism. (Chicago : The Chicago Peace Society, 1913), by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Prophecy : The Human Community or the True Social Order. (San Francisco : The Human Community, 1919), by Louis Herman Koepsel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pazifismus und belagerungszustand; eine eingabe an den Deutschen reichstag mit einer denkschrift "Die handhabung des gesetzes über den belagerungszustand gegenüber den deutschen pazifisten" und einem anhang von beilagen enthaltend dokumente des pazifismus (Frankfurt a.M., Union-druckerei und verlagsanstalt g.m.b.h., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Naar vrede? (Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1901), by M. C. Piepers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Militarism, or Military fever : its causes, dangers and cure / by Richard H. Thomas. (Philadelphia : American Friend Pub., 1899), by Richard Henry Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Český antimilitarism : kus historie a trochu vzpomínek / (V Praze : Mladé Proudy, 1922), by Emil Špatný (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The memorial of the society of people of New-Lebanon, in the county of Columbia, and Watervliet, in the county of Albany, commonly called Shakers. : To the respectable Legislature of the state of New-York. (Albany : Churchill & Abbey, printers, 95 State-street, [1816]), by Shakers, Seth Y. Wells, Calvin Green, Peter Dodge, Morrell Baker, Richard Spier, printer Churchill & Abbey, and New York (State). Legislature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacifism and democracy in Colonial Pennsylvania. (Sanford, Calif., 1961), by Brent E. Barksdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pacifist lie : a book for sailors and soldiers / (London : John Murray, 1918), by E. J. Solano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The friend of peace : to which is prefixed, A solemn review of the custom of war; showing that war is the effect of popular delusion, and proposing a remedy / (Greenfield, Mass. : Printed and published by Ansel Phelps, 1817), by Noah Worcester, contrib. by Solomon Arms (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revolution non-resistant / (Long Beach, Calif. : Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co., [1919?]), by Fanny Bixby Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gegen Militarismus und Monopol-Eigentum ; Verteidigungsrede / (Wein : Verlag "Wohlstand für Alle", 1914), by Rudolf Grossmann-Steffen and Gustav Seitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to deal with a dictator / (New York, N.Y. : Fellowhship Publications, [1954]), by A. J. Muste and American Friends Service Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Blatter zu dem Lorbeerkranz eines 'Verschollenen.'. (Zürich, n.p., 1846) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Black 'ell. (N.l. : J. S. Cram, 1917), by Miles Malleson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Watchfires. (New York, the author, 1917), by Tracy D. Mygatt and David Starr Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Educators : For War or Peace - Which?. (Amherst, Mass. : Press of Carpenter and Morehouse, 1896), by Ellen Goodell Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Militarism in America. (Los Angeles : Bookman Press, 1926?), by Fanny Bixby Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Repudiation of War. (Costa Mesa, Calif., n.p., 1922), by Fanny Bixby Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Natural Decline of Warfare. (New York : Tucker Pub. Co., 1900), by Alexander Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tracts /, by England) author Peace Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacifist living -- today and tomorrow : a brief exploratin of pacifism under conscription, in time of war, and post-war reconstruction. (Philadelphia : The Peace Section, American Friends Service Committee, 1941), by Pa.) Pendle Hill (School : Wallingford and American Friends Service Committee. Peace Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paz e Arbitragem (in Portuguese), by S. de Magalhães Lima (Gutenberg ebook)
• Introduction to Non-Violence, by Theodore Paullin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The speech of Samuel Chew, Esq; chief justice of the government of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware: delivered from the bench to the grand-jury of the county of New-Castle, Nov. 21. 1741; and now published at their request. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin., M,DCC,XLI. [1741]), by Samuel Chew (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Necessary truth: or Seasonable considerations for the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania. In relation to the pamphlet call'd Plain truth: and two other writers in the news-paper. : [Six lines from Isaiah] (Philadelphia: : Printed [by William Bradford], in the year MDCCXLVIII. [1748]), by Samuel Smith (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Smith's animadversions upon, and refutations of sundry gross errors, mistakes and blunders, contained in a certain pamphlet handed about in this government, in the form of a sermon or speech. [Ten lines of quotation] (Philadelphia: : Printed [by Andrew Bradford] for, and sold by the author, at Duck-Creek. Sold also at the Bible in Front-Street. And at several other places., 1742), by Smith (HTML at Evans TCP)

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