PeaceDocs | Bibliography | North America, 1600–1900

CHAPTER 16: Peacemaking in North America, 1600-1900
General
1487. Adams, David. The American Peace Movements: History, Root Causes, and Future. New Haven, CT: Advocate Press, 1986.
1488. Black, Henry Campbell. The Great Conspiracy. Washington, DC: National Association for Constitutional Government, 1922.
1489. Brock, Peter. “Faustus Socinus against War: from the First Chapter of the Third Part of His Reply to Jacobus Palaeologus (1581).” Peace Research Abstracts 37. 1 (2000).
1490. Brock, Peter. Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
1491. Brock, Peter. Freedom from War: Nonsectarian Pacifism, 1814-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
1492. —. A History of Pacifism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.
1493. —. Pacifism in the United States, From the Colonial Era to the First World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.
1494. —. Pioneers of the Peaceable Kingdom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970.
1495. —. Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.
1496. —. The Roots of War Resistance: Pacifism from the Early Church to Tolstoy. Nyack, NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1981.
1497. —. Studies in Peace History. York, England: W. Sessions, 1991.
1498. —. Varieties of Pacifism: A Survey from Antiquity to the Outset of the Twentieth Century. Toronto: P. Brock, 1998.
1499. Dyck, Harvey L., and Peter Brock. The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
1500. Hawkley, Louise, and James C. Juhnke. Nonviolent America: History Through the Eyes of Peace. Cornelius H. Wedel historical series, 5. North Newton, KS: Bethel College, 1993.
1500.1. Howlett, Charles F., and Robbie Lieberman. A History of the American Peace Movement: From Colonial Times to the Present. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
1500.2. —. History of the American Peace Movement, 1890-2000: The Emergence of a New Scholarly Discipline. Studies in world peace, v. 18. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
1501. Ivie, Robert L. Dissent from War. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007.
1502. Lynd, Staughton. Nonviolence in America; A Documentary History. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
1503. —, and Alice Lynd. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995.
1503.1 Polner, Murray, and Thomas E. Woods. We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
1504. Wittner, Lawrence S. Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1933-1983. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1984.
1505. Ziegler, Valarie Morris. “The Advocates of Peace Theological Foundations of the Nineteenth-Century American Peace Movement.” Thesis (Ph.D.). Emory University, 1987.
1506. Ziegler, Valarie H. The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001.
Quakers (Society of Friends)
1507. American Friends Service Committee. Speak Truth to Power, A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence; a Study of International Conflict. 1955.
1508. Bacon, Margaret Hope. The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America. New York: Basic Books, 1969.
1509. Barbour, Hugh, and J. William Frost. The Quakers. Greenwood Press, 1989.
1510. Brock, Peter. The Quaker Peace Testimony 1660 to 1914. York, England: Sessions Book Trust, 1990.
1511. Calvert, Jane E. “Dissenters in Our Own Country”: Eighteenth-Century Quakerism and the Origins of American Civil Disobedience. Thesis (Ph.D.). University of Chicago, 2003.
1512. Fiske, John. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899.
1513. Foster, Ethan. The Conscript Quakers: Being a Narrative of the Distress and Relief of Four Young Men from the Draft for the War in 1863. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1885.
1514. Frost, J. William. The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973.
1515. Jones, Rufus Matthew. The Quakers in the American Colonies. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962.
1516. Jordan, Ryan P. Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
1517. Kashatus, William C. Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
1518. Levy, Barry. Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
1519. Lynd, Alice, and Staughton Lynd. Liberation Theology for Quakers. Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1996.
1520. Marietta, Jack D. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.
1521. Mekeel, Arthur Jacob, and Howard Haines Brinton. New England Quakers and Military Service in the American Revolution. New York: The Macmillan Co, 1938.
1522. Nelson, Jacquelyn S. Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1991.
1523. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. An Apology for the People Called Quakers Containing Some Reasons, for Their Not Complying with Human Injunctions and Institutions in Matters Relative to the Worship of God. Philadelphia: Printed by James Chattin, 1757.
1524. Pringle, Cyrus G. The Record of a Quaker Conscience. New York: Macmillan, 1918.
1525. Soderlund, Jean R. Quakers & Slavery: A Divided Spirit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.
1526. Tennent, Gilbert, Benjamin Franklin, and David Hall. The Late Association for Defence Farther Encouraged, or, Defensive War Defended and Its Consistency with True Christianity Represented: In a Reply to Some Exceptions against War, in a Late Composure, Intituled, The Doctrine of Christianity, As Held by the People Called Quakers, Vindicated. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1748.
1527. Weddle, Meredith Baldwin. “Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century.” Thesis (Ph.D.). Yale University, 1993.
Amish, Mennonites and Others
1528. Brock, Peter. The Political and Social Doctrines of the Unity of Czech Brethren in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries. Slavistic printings and reprintings, 11. s'-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1957.
1529. Brunk, Gerald R., James O. Lehman, and Mary Jean Kraybill. A Guide to Select Revolutionary War Records Pertaining to Mennonites and Other Pacifist Groups in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1775-1800. Lancaster, PA: Mennonite Historical Associates, 1974.
1530. Bush, Perry. Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
1531. Dodge, David Low, James Mott, and Noah Worcester. The First American Peace Movement; Comprising War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ. The Garland library of war and peace. New York: Garland Pub, 1972.
1532. Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and Related Areas. The American Mennonites. Ephrata, PA: Eastern Mennonite Publications, 1998.
1533. Freehling, Janet Weber. Mennonite and Amish Conscientious Objectors in Pennsylvania During the Civil War. Thesis (M.A.). West Virginia University, 1967.
1534. Horsch, John. The Hutterian Brethren, 1528-1931, and The Principle of Nonresistance As Held by the Mennonite Church. The Garland library of war and peace. New York: Garland, 1972.
1535. Horst, Samuel L. Mennonites in the Confederacy: A Study in Civil War Pacifism. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1994.
1536. Hostetler, John Andrew. Amish Roots: A Treasury of History, Wisdom, and Lore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
1537. Kraybill, Donald B. The Amish and the State. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
1538. Kraybill, Mary Jean, Gerald R. Brunk, and James O. Lehman. A Guide to Select Revolutionary War Records Pertaining to Mennonites and Other Pacifist Groups in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland. Number Two. Lancaster, PA: Mennonite Historical Associates, 1974.
1539. Lehman, Christina Renee. Blest Be the Tie That Binds: Mennonites, Conscientious Objectors, and the American State, 1917-1947. Thesis (Honors). Smith College, 2003.
1540. Lehman, James O., and Steven M. Nolt. Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War. Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
1541. MacMaster, Richard K. Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America, 1683-1790. The Mennonite experience in America, v. 1. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1985.
1542. —. Mennonites in the American Revolution. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1980.
1543. The Mennonite Experience in America. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1985.
1543. -1 Morgan, Douglas. “The Beginnings of a Peace Church: Eschatology, Ethics, and Expedience in Seventh-Day Adventist Responses to the Civil War.” Andrews University Seminary Studies 45 (Sprint 2007): 35–43.
1544. Peterson, Anna Lisa. Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
1545. Sanger, Samuel F., and Daniel Hays. The Olive Branch of Peace and Good Will to Men Anti-War History of the Brethren and Mennonites, the Peace People of the South, During the Civil War, 1861-1865. Elgin, IL: Brethren Pub. House, 1907; Linville Creek, VA: Church of the Brethren, 1997.
1546. Schelbert, Leo. Swiss Migration to America: The Swiss Mennonites. American ethnic groups. New York: Arno Press, 1980.
1547. Schlabach, Theron F. Peace, Faith, Nation: Mennonites and Amish in Nineteenth-Century America. The Mennonite experience in America, v. 2. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1988.
1548. Stoltzfus, Grant M. History of the First Amish Mennonite Communities in America. Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2002.
1549. Thurman, William C. Non-Resistance, or, the Spirit of Christianity Restored. Charlottsville [sic], VA: [Published by the author], 1862.
1550. Weidman, Wanda Lee. “God and Country: A Study of the Moravians During the American Revolution.” Thesis (B.A.). Drew University, 1977.
1551. Wenger, J. C., and Harold Stauffer Bender. The Mennonite Church in America, Sometimes Called Old Mennonites. Mennonite history, v. 2. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1966.
1552. Yoder, Paton. Tradition & Transition: Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish, 1800-1900. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history, no. 31. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1991.
1553. Yoder, Richard B. Nonresistance Among the Peace Churches of Southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania, During the Civil War. N.p.: [s.n.], 1959.
Secular Movements
1554. Bennett, Scott H. Writers on Warriors against War: The Historiography of the Antebellum Peace Movement. 1996.
1555. Coakley, Robert W., Paul J. Scheips, and Emma J. Portuondo. Antiwar and Antimilitary Activities in the United States, 1846-1954. Washington, DC: Histories Division, Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army], 1970.
1556. Curti, Merle Eugene. Poets of Peace and the Civil War. New York: Garland, 1972.
1557. —. Peace or War: The American struggle 1636-1936. The Garland library of war and peace. New York: Garland, 1972.
1558. Peace-maker. An Appeal to the Honest and Reasoning-Minded People of the Northern and Southern States of North America. Petersburg, VA: s.n, 1863.
1559. Sokolow, Jayme A. “Revivalism and Radicalism: William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright and the Ideology of Nonresistance.” Thesis. New York University, 1980.
1560. Villard, Fanny Garrison, and Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoj. William Lloyd Garrison on Non-resistance. Together with a personal sketch by F. Garrison Villard and a Tribute by L. Tolstoi [L.N. Tolstoj]. New York: The Nation Press Printing Co, 1924.
1561. Wachtell, Cynthia Jane. “War No More: The Emergence of American Anti-War Literature from the Civil War Through World War I.” Thesis (Ph.D.). Harvard University, 1998.
Conscientious Objection
1562. Brock, Peter. Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
1563. —. Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
1564. Brock, Peter. Records of Conscience: Three Autobiographical Narratives by Conscientious Objectors, 1665-1865. York, England: W. Sessions, 1993.
1565. Kremer, Russell. Conscientious Objection in Antebellum America. 1974.
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