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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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• 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)
• Unto What End? (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1914), by B. Langdon-Davies (page images here at Penn)
• Agents of Peace (New York: Hour Publishers, ca. 1951), by Albert Eugene Kahn (page images at flvc.org)
• 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)
• Listen to the mocking bird : satiric songs to tunes you know. (Mockingbird Press, 1973), by Tuli Kupferberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gegen Militarismus und Monopol-Eigentum ; Verteidigungsrede (Verlag "Wohlstand für Alle", 1914), by Rudolf Grossmann-Steffen and Gustav Seitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When thoughts will soar : a romance of the immediate future (Boston : New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914., 1914), by Bertha von Suttner and Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacifism and democracy in Colonial Pennsylvania. (Sanford, Calif., 1961), by Brent E. Barksdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to deal with a dictator (Fellowhship Publications, 1954), by A. J. Muste and American Friends Service Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Český antimilitarism : kus historie a trochu vzpomínek (Mladé Proudy, 1922), by Emil Špatný (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• War is the enemy (New York, N.Y. : Published for the Fellowship of Reconciliation ; [Wallingford, Pa.] : [Pendle Hill], [1942], 1942), by A. J. Muste and Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (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 (Printed and published by Ansel Phelps, 1817), by Noah Worcester and Solomon Arms (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statesmanship of peace : if not war, then what? Spain -- and the next war! (War Resisters League, 1937), by John Haynes Holmes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Darrow-Lewis Debate on the Theory of Non-Resistance. (Worker's University Society, 1910), by Clarence Darrow and Arthur M. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace, Not War : The School of Heroism. (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. (The Human Community, 1919), by Louis Herman Koepsel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Blatter zu dem Lorbeerkranz eines 'Verschollenen.'. (Zürich, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Black 'ell. (J. S. Cram, 1917), by Miles Malleson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Watchfires. (New York, 1917), by Tracy D. Mygatt and David Starr Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Educators : For War or Peace - Which?. (Press of Carpenter and Morehouse, 1896), by Ellen Goodell Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Militarism in America. (Bookman Press, 1926), by Fanny Bixby Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Repudiation of War. (Costa Mesa, Calif., 1922), by Fanny Bixby Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Natural Decline of Warfare. (Tucker Pub. Co., 1900), by Alexander Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second thoughts (National Labour Press, 1917), by Miles Malleson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The revolution non-resistant (Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co., 1919), by Fanny Bixby Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where are we going? (Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1941), by A. J. Muste and Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacifist program in time of war, threatened war, or fascism (Pendle Hill], 1939), by Richard Bartlett Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political theories of modern pacifism ; an analysis and criticism. (The Pacifist research bureau, 1944), by Mulford Quickert Sibley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacifist living -- today and tomorrow : a brief exploratin of pacifism under conscription, in time of war, and post-war reconstruction. (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)
• The right and the wrong in our Civil War (s.n., 1903), by Homer B. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the Christian Pacifists at Los Angeles, Cal. (National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918), by Norman Thomas and National Civil Liberties Bureau (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une campagne pacifiste pendant la guerre (A. Delpeuch, 1926), by Louis Guétant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacifism in time of war (Headley Bros., 1915), by Carl Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ghosts of the slain (National Labor Press, 1915), by Robert Leonard Outhwaite and Joseph E. Southall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The danger of peace : being the substance of a lecture delivered at King's College, London, on May 19, 1915 (G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915), by J. W. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im Westen nichts Neues und sein wahrer Sinn, eine Betrachtung über den Pazifismus und Antwort an Remarque. (L. Stocker, 1929), by Gottfried Nickl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toward pacifism [the convincement and commitment of a young European] (Pendle Hill, 1950), by Gunnar Sundberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventh-day Adventists in time of war (Review and Herald, 1936), by Francis McLellan Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bases du pacifisme : le pacifisme réformiste et le pacifisme révolutionnaire (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)
• Pour l'abolition des guerres (Imprimerie Nouvelle, 1916), by H. Lepert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Awake! (Dept. of Business Organizations, International School of Peace, 1909), by International School of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Razskazy o velikikh sobytii͡akh raznykh vremen i narodov. (1909), by N. A. Rubakin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Socialism for pacifists (National Labour Press, 1916), by Fenner Brockway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Varieties of Pacifism. (World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, 1920), by Charles Edward Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacifism in the modern world (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929), by Devere Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An alternative to war. (Council on Religion and International Affairs, 1963), by Gordon C. Zahn (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.] (Zadruga, 1922), by Valentin Bulgakov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Neuzheli ėto tak nado? (A. Tchertkoff, 1900), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Soldatskai͡a pami͡atka. Ofit͡serskai͡a pami͡atka (A. Tchertkoff, 1902), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peace and war. Notes of sermons and addresses (Longmans, Green, 1917), by Paul B. Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Militarism, or Military fever : its causes, dangers and cure / by Richard H. Thomas. (American Friend Pub., 1899), by Richard Henry Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered at the eighth anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society, Dec. 25, 1823 (Printed by John B. Russell, 1824), by Tyler Bigelow, Massachusetts Peace Society, Peace Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some observations on the militia system, addressed to the serious consideration of the citizens of Pennsylvania (A. Waldie, 1831), by Enoch Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Swarthmore Press, 1923), by William E. Wilson (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 (Union-druckerei und verlagsanstalt g.m.b.h., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Naar vrede? (S.L. van Looy, 1901), by M. C. Piepers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Non-resistance; or, The spirit of Christianity restored. (The author, 1862), by William C. Thurman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ and war : the reasonableness of disarmament on Christian, humantarian and economic grounds : a peace study text-book (James Clarke & Co., 1914), by William E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A solemn review of the custom of war : showing that war is the effect of popular delusion, and proposing a remedy (Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1816), by Noah Worcester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two orations against taking away human life, under any circumstances; and in explanation and defence of the misrepresented doctrine of non-resistance. (London, 1846), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Friedens-Union zwischen allen civilisirten Völkern : ein Wort an alle Welt (Verlag der Friedens-Union, 1867), by Félix Santallier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement to my people on the eve of war (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 (Church of the Messiah, 1917), by John Haynes Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The futility of force : a sermon preached in the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, August 23, 1914 (s.n., 1914), by Washington Gladden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The philosophy of pacifism (League of Peace and Freedom, 1915), by Bertrand Russell and League of Peace and Freedom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hory trupiv i more krovy ta sliz 4 obrazkamy (Nowyj swit, 1916), by I. H. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christian non-resistance in all its important bearings illustrated and defended. (University Microfilms, 1970), by Adin Ballou (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 (Printed for the Standing Committee of the Old South Society by the Plimpton Press, 1917), by George A. Gordon and Mass.) Old South Church (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanted : aggressive pacificism [sic] (Chicago Peace Society, 1915), by Louis P. Lochner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die moderne friedensbewegung in Deutschland und Frankreich. (Leipzig, 1908), by Alfred H. Fried (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La marche vers la paix; discours prononcé au cercle international le 24 juillet 1907 (J. Cikot, 1907), by Hubert Willem van Asch van Wijck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sechs Tatsachen als Grundlage zur Beurteilung der heutigen Machtpolitik (Der Freie Verlag, 1918), by Georg Friedrich Nicolai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The beginning of the end (G.H. Ellis, 1898), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der kranke Krieg. (Alfred Kröner, 1909), by Alfred Hermann Fried (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pacifist lie : a book for sailors and soldiers (John Murray, 1918), by E. J. Solano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Can Christians fight? (Mennonite publishing house, 1940), by Guy F. Hershberger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacifism as the unifying thesis of all social reform; a criticism. (R.G. Badger, the Gorham Press, 1922), by Charles Kuhlman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three decades of war resistance (The War resisters league, 1942), by Jessie Wallace Hughan and War Resisters League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A plea for pacifism (The Champlin Press, 1915), by Washington Gladden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conscientious objector. (National Security League, 1917), by George Herbert Mead and National Security League (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Headley Brothers, 1914), by William E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il pacifismo di Teodoro Moneta e le nuove dottrine di diritto internazionale di Eduardo Cimbali con polemica. (Vincenzo Bartelli & c., 1909), by Ettore Felix and Eduardo Cimbali (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Norman Angellism: how it concerns you (Published by War and Peace Pub. Co. for Garton Foundation, 1914), by J. B. Sterndale Bennett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Universal peace—from a woman's standpoint, by Bertha von Suttner (Gutenberg ebook)
• 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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