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Patriotic Pacifism : Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914 - Sandi E. Cooper

Patriotic Pacifism

Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914

By: Sandi E. Cooper

Hardcover | 19 December 1991

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Despite the liberalized reconfiguration of civil society and political practice in nineteenth-century Europe, the right to make foreign policy, devise alliances, wage war and negotiate peace remained essentially an executive prerogative. Citizen challenges to the exercise of this power grew slowly. Drawn from the educated middle classes, peace activists maintained that Europe was a single culture despite national animosities; that Europe needed rational inter-state relationships to avoid catastrophe; and that internationalism was the logical outgrowth of the nation-state, not its subversion. In this book, Cooper explores the arguments of these "patriotic pacifists" with emphasis on the remarkable international peace movement that grew between 1889 and 1914. While the first World War revealed the limitations and dilemmas of patriotic pacifism, the shape, if not substance, of many twentieth-century international institutions was prefigured in nineteenth-century continental
pacifism.
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"As definitive as any book covering such a large scope can be."--CHOICE "Patriotic Pacifism is clearly a work of great erudition, based upon extensive research in a great number of diverse and often previously unexplored sources. This rich scholarship provides an excellent work of comparative history--one that covers events in more than a dozen nations over the course of a century."--Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York, Albany "Patriotic pacifism is used in two senses in this thorough and informative study of the beginnings of an organized peace movement in Europe."--Fellowship "An excellent study of the somewhat neglected and almost always denigrated peace movement in Europe between 1815 and 1914....Though sympathetic with her subject, she renders a realistic and unsentimental assessment of pacifist influence and aspirations. Her fine book will appeal to general readers, political activists, and scholars of political theory, diplomatic practice and European culture."--History of European Ideas "A fine example of careful scholarship, this book should become a standard reference for European peace movements before World War I."--American Historical Review "Fascinating cross-cultural study."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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