Against the draft: essays on conscientious objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War

Abstract

List of Illustrations Foreword by Martin Ceadel Acknowledgments Introduction * Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians * A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) * Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden * Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy * Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France * The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question * Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands * When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America * Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814-1902 * Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary * Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia * The Skarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan * The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan * 'Boy Conscription' in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters * Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars * Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War * Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists * The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany * Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914 - February 1917 * Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union * Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 * Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland * Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain * British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War * Jehovah's Witnesses as Conscientious Objectors in Nazi Germany Index