Item #14725 The First American Peace Movement : comprising War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ; The Lawfulness of War for Christians, Examined; [and] A Solemn Review of the Custom of War. David Low Dodge, James Mott, Noah Worcester, new, Peter Brock.
The First American Peace Movement : comprising War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ; The Lawfulness of War for Christians, Examined; [and] A Solemn Review of the Custom of War

The First American Peace Movement : comprising War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ; The Lawfulness of War for Christians, Examined; [and] A Solemn Review of the Custom of War

New York: Garland Publishing, 1972.

Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #14725
ISBN: 0824002202

Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of three works, originally published in 1905, 1814, and 1815, respectively: War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ, by David low Dodge, with an intrododuction by Edwin D. Mead; The Lawfulness of War for Christians, examined, by James Mott; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War, by Noah Worcester. "Influenced to some extent by the ideas of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment; Dodge and Worcester made use of the utilitarian case against war alongside religious arguments (though neither they nor other early nineteenth-century advocates of peace penetrated very deeply into the economic causes of conflict). They were divided, however, concerning the limits of pacifism." - new introduction by Peter Brock. ; The Garland Library of War and Peace; Ex-Library; 11, xx, 168, 33, 23 pages.

Price: $69.95

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