Campaigns Of Peace

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Excerpt from Quaker Campaigns in Peace and War In offering this book of reminiscences to the public, it should be understood that it does not purport to be a complete autobiography. The main object attempted has been to gather up, at the pressing invitation of many personal friends, some fragments of my experiences at home and abroad, in connection with certain leading events in European history during the last half-century. Imperfect as these records are, it is hoped that they may be of interest, as a small contribution to the thoughtful consideration of some important questions, especially the subject of the modern ruinous armaments, which have of late obtained so generous a share of national and international attention and effort. If, in the narratives of travel, the allusions to the Society of Friends may appear to some readers to be rather too frequent, it must be remembered that it was mainly in connection with, and at the request of, that religious body that my journeys in America, and among our English-speaking kin dred at the Antipodes, as well as on behalf of suffering humanity in Europe, were undertaken. These gratuitous services, though often arduous, and at times perilous, were truly a labour of love, as well as of duty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is the first detailed scholarly study of the late Victorian and Edwardian peace movement, the campaigns of which made a significant impact on political debate, especially during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign (1876-8), Britain's conflict in Egypt (1882), the South African War (1899-1902), and the intensifying international crisis before 1914. The movement's activists included Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Keir Hardie, J. A. Hobson, and Norman Angell. Among the first to benefit from the opening of the Peace Society Archive, the book focuses on the specialized associations at the heart of the peace movement. Paul Laity identifies the existence of different programmes for the achievement of a just, permanent peace, and offers a new interpretation of the reaction of peace campaigners to war in 1914. At the same time, his book makes an important and original contribution to the history of popular politics and political ideas in Britain.