Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
by Cortright, David
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- Condition
- Nice Copy
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2008. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. stiff wrappers xii + 376pp., bibliog., index, Ôdefinitive 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 activism that peaked in the 1980s.Õ Some underling & pencil annotation o/w a nice copy
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
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- 79086
- Title
- Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
- Author
- Cortright, David
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice Copy
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge U. P.
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- octavo
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