Against the Draft
Subtitle: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: April 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780802090737
Subjects: American history: Second World War; Demonstrations & protest movements; Quakers (Religious Society of Friends); Warfare & Defence; Peace; History; Politics / Current Events; Military; USA; History / Military / General; Military - General; Conscientious objection; Histoire; Objection de conscience
First sentence: In 1525 the idea of nonresistance (Wehrlosigkeit) emerged as a component of Reformation thought with the formation of the radical religious group known as the Swiss Brethren.