Covering the period 1800-1980, this is a remarkable compilation of 750 biographical essays on the world's most prominent peace advocates and activists... It is at once an invaluable reference tool and a splendid point of entry into the otherwise lost world of modern peace heroes. Library Journal
HAROLD JOSEPHSON is Professor of History and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His earlier works include James T. Shotwell and the Rise of Internationalism in America and articles in Diplomatic History, The Historian, and American Heritage.
?Covering the period 1800-1980, this is a remarkable compilation of
750 biographical essays on the world's most prominent peace
advocates and activists. Commencing with an excellent introduction
by Josephson, the volume includes contributions from 250 authors
from 15 countries. Its subjects range from such famous
personalities as Jane Addams and Mohandas Gandhi to people of
lesser renown. Most come from the United States and Western Europe,
but a significant number represent Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this work stands with a
companion volume--Warren Kuehl's Biographical Dictionary of
Internationalists (Greenwood Press, 1983)--to provide the best
brief introduction to the modern global peace tradition. It is at
once an invaluable reference tool and a splendid point of entry
into the otherwise lost world of modern peace heroes.?-Library
Journal
?Seven hundred fifty ... individuals who either contributed to the
organized peace effort or who influenced others to question wars
and organized violence... are the subjects of these contributed
essays supplemented by bibliographies. All biographees lived
between 1800 and 1980. There are 41 countries represented in the
work; an appendix identifies their diversity, ranging from the US,
Britain, and Germany to the Central African Republic, China, and
Russia. Many individuals are well know but others are not easily
identified. Warren Kuehl's Biographical Dictionary of
Internationalists (1983) complements this volume; cross-referencing
between the two has been provided.... An informative essay on the
peace movement and a chronology of the movement add value. The more
than 250 contributors are identified, and there is a helpful index.
This information-filled book is not, as so many collections are, a
regurgitation of information in a different form.
Recommended.?-Choice
"Covering the period 1800-1980, this is a remarkable compilation of
750 biographical essays on the world's most prominent peace
advocates and activists. Commencing with an excellent introduction
by Josephson, the volume includes contributions from 250 authors
from 15 countries. Its subjects range from such famous
personalities as Jane Addams and Mohandas Gandhi to people of
lesser renown. Most come from the United States and Western Europe,
but a significant number represent Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this work stands with a
companion volume--Warren Kuehl's Biographical Dictionary of
Internationalists (Greenwood Press, 1983)--to provide the best
brief introduction to the modern global peace tradition. It is at
once an invaluable reference tool and a splendid point of entry
into the otherwise lost world of modern peace heroes."-Library
Journal
"Seven hundred fifty ... individuals who either contributed to the
organized peace effort or who influenced others to question wars
and organized violence... are the subjects of these contributed
essays supplemented by bibliographies. All biographees lived
between 1800 and 1980. There are 41 countries represented in the
work; an appendix identifies their diversity, ranging from the US,
Britain, and Germany to the Central African Republic, China, and
Russia. Many individuals are well know but others are not easily
identified. Warren Kuehl's Biographical Dictionary of
Internationalists (1983) complements this volume; cross-referencing
between the two has been provided.... An informative essay on the
peace movement and a chronology of the movement add value. The more
than 250 contributors are identified, and there is a helpful index.
This information-filled book is not, as so many collections are, a
regurgitation of information in a different form.
Recommended."-Choice
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