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Author:   Peter Brock (Emeritus Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780195151213

ISBN 10:   0195151216
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   25 April 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Part I: Colonial America 1: The First Quaker Conscientious Objectors in America, 1658 2: Rhode Island, 1673: ""None to be compelled to train or fight against their consciences"" 3: Witnessing to the Quaker Peace Testimony 4: Quakers and Naval Impressment 5: Conscientious Objectors in the French and Indian War Part II: English West Indies 6: Militia ""Sufferings"" among Quakers 7: Alternative Service and the Quakers of Antigua Part III: Revolutionary America 8: Quaker Militia Penalties 9: Dilemmas of a Quaker Tax and Paper Currency Objector 10: The German Peace Sects of Pennsylvania and the Draft 11: A Peace Sect Wrestles with the Problem of Hiring a Substitute 12: The Conscientious Objection of a Methodist Preacher 13: The Moravian Brethren and War Part IV: Upper Canada 14: Legislative Exemption for Peace Sects 15: Quakers and Military Requisitions, 1810-1824 16: A Quaker Family in the War of 1812 17: Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Rural Upper Canada, 1840 Part V: The New Republic to Antebellum America 18: Continuing Quaker Witness against War, 1801-1824 19: A Quaker Petition against Militia Conscription, 1810 20: A Small-Sect Militia Objector 21: Pleas for Exemption of Nonsectarian Militia Objectors 22: William Lloyd Garrison as a Militia Objector 23: Should ""Pacific Exempts"" Pay Malitia Fines? 24: Nonsectarian Miltia Objectors in Jail 25: Dilemmas of Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Antebellum America Part VI: Civil War America 26: A Garrisonian Mother and Her Draft-Age Sons 27: William Lloyd Garrison and His Son's Exemption from Military Drill at School 28: Conscript Dilemmas at the Hopedale Community 29: Draft Experiences of a Conscripted Shaker 30: The Civil War Diary of a Quaker Conscript 31: Trials of a Quaker Conscientious Objector in the Confederate Army 32: A Reluctant Conscientious Objector 33: A Consistent War-Tax Objector 34: A Monnonite Farmer Hires a Substitute 35: Brethren and Mennonites as Exiles from the Confederate Draft 36: Adventists Confront the Draft 37: A Disciple of Christ Goes the Second Mile 38: Christadelphians and the Draft"

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Peter Brock is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Pacifism from the Middle Ages to the Great War as well as many other books and articles on the history of pacifism. He was a conscientious objector during World War II and later served as a volunteer in the Anglo-American Quaker Relief Mission in postwar Poland.

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