Conscription Conscientious Objection And Draft Resistance In American History

Author : Jerry Elmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004546685
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History written by Jerry Elmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era. Each chapter contains an examination of that era’s draft law, the actual workings of the conscription machinery, and relevant court decisions that shaped the draft in practice. In addition, the book describes the popular opposition to conscription: organized and unorganized, violent and nonviolent, public and clandestine, legal and illegal. Using sources never before utilized by historians, including government documents obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests, the book demonstrates how anti-conscription sentiment has been far deeper than is popularly appreciated.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287977
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty and Conscience written by Peter Brock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact, during the period of conscription from the late 1650s to the end of the Civil War, many North Americans refused military service on grounds of conscience. In this volume, Peter Brock, one of the foremost historians of American pacifism, seeks to remedy this oversight by presenting a rich and varied collection of documents, many drawn from obscure sources, that shed new light on American religious and military history. These include legal findings, church and meeting proceedings, appeals by nonconformists to government authorities, and illuminating excerpts from personal journals. These accounts contain many poignant, often painful, and sometimes even humorous episodes that offer glimpses into the lives of conscientious objectors of the era. One of the most striking features to emerge from these documents is the critical role of religion in the history of American pacifism. Brock finds that virtually all who refused military service in this period were inspired by religious convictions, with Quakers frequently the most ardent dissenters. In the antebellum period, however, the pacifist spectrum expanded to include nonsectarians such as the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the New England Non-Resistance Society. A dramatic, powerful portrait of early American pacifism, Liberty and Conscience presents not only the thought and practice of the objectors themselves, but also the response of the authorities and the general public.

Author : Martin Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Draft written by Martin Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Needles Wright
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512819425
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscientious Objectors in the Civil War written by Edward Needles Wright and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "conscientious objector" was not in use during the Civil War, but the concept certainly existed. This engrossing volume studies the whole problem of objection to warfare on religious or moral grounds, as it existed during the Civil War. The author covers five major areas: the type of individuals and which religious denominations were actually opposed to the war on conscientious grounds; what efforts were made on behalf of objectors and what changes took place in their political status; the attitude of the civil and military authorities toward objectors; the number of objectors; and, finally, a comparison of the problem of conscientious objection in the Civil War with the same problem as it existed for the United States during World War I. The facts presented in this volume are of historical interest; the conclusions the author draws, however, are as relevant and important today as they have been during any period in American history.

Author : Carl L. Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avoidance and Evasion of Military Service written by Carl L. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concluding observations with an overview of the issue are offered in the last chapter.

Author : Charles C. Moskos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359933
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Conscientious Objection written by Charles C. Moskos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although conscientious objection is a long-standing phenomenon, it has only recently become a major factor affecting armed forces and society. The only comprehensive, comparative scholarly study of conscientious objection to military service, this book examines the history of the practice in the Western world and state policies that have grown up in response to it. It shows how the contemporary refusal to bear arms is likely to be secular and widespread rather than religious and marginal, now including service people (as seen in the 1991 War in the Persian Gulf) as well as conscription resisters. No account of civil-military relations or peace movements in advanced industrial countries is complete without reference to conscientious objection, and this book will be the standard text on the subject.

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ISBN 13 : 9780903517294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscientious Objection written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald R. Gioglio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days of Decision written by Gerald R. Gioglio and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscience in America written by Lillian Schlissel and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Kurt Piehler
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823231208
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and the Second World War written by G. Kurt Piehler and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Piehler and Pash bring together a collection of essays offering an examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the US to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory and more