Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas

by David Cortright

Book Overview

Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521670004
• ISBN13: 9780521670005
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"