Essential for libraries with an interest in the history of the
American peace movements and useful for most larger collections.
Choice This dictionary provides information on the writers,
editors, and publications that have carried on a strong American
tradition of peace advocacy that goes back to colonial times.
The only work of its kind, the dictionary contains entries for
some 400 individuals and more than 200 periodicals that
represent viewpoints ranging from radical nonresistance,
religious pacifism, and racial nonviolence, to selective anti-
war positions and advocacy of world government. Professor
Roberts' introduction presents an interpretive overview of peace
advocacy and the various print media that became vehicles for
it, including mainstream magazines and church or peace movement
publications such as tracts, books, and pamphlets. Each entry
summarizes the individual's literary contributions and lists
known affiliations with periodicals, peace organizations, and
religious groups. The bibliographic s