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Blythe, Patrick G.

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Visions of a Peaceful World: Locating Peace in Early Nineteenth-Century New England, 1805--1850.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visions of a Peaceful World: Locating Peace in Early Nineteenth-Century New England, 1805--1850./
Author:	Blythe, Patrick G.
Description:	285 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-04A(E).
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3533972
ISBN:	9781267795526

Visions of a Peaceful World: Locating Peace in Early Nineteenth-Century New England, 1805--1850.
Blythe, Patrick G.

Visions of a Peaceful World: Locating Peace in Early Nineteenth-Century New England, 1805--1850. - 285 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 2012.

Early nineteenth-century America witnessed a crusade to end all war and establish a peaceful culture. The energy behind the movement came from New England, not from mid-Atlantic Quakers. Made up of military veterans, liberal and conservative Christians, entrepreneurs and merchants, mothers and moralists, these reformers argued that all war, even the American Revolution, was contrary to Gospel ethics. I examine the lives and writings of four prominent peace advocates: Congregational minister Noah Worcester; Yankee entrepreneur and Presbyterian David Low Dodge; merchant, gentleman farmer, and orthodox Congregationalist convert William Ladd; and popular author and Episcopalian Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Drawing on their experiences with personal and local conflicts, they developed alternative pathways to peace, thereby emphasizing a variety of methods and outcomes. Dodge shunned government and renounced all forms of violence (even in self-defense). Worcester and Ladd placed their hope in government---local, state, national, and international. Sigourney argued that peace depended on the education of women who would teach young men how to live in harmony. Despite their differences, all four argued that wars and violence were not natural but personal and collective choices. Peace was not merely the absence of violence or war. It was the creation and maintenance of social hierarchies and cultural systems at the local level---in families, churches, towns, and reform organizations---that promoted nonviolent conflict resolution.

ISBN: 9781267795526Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Visions of a Peaceful World: Locating Peace in Early Nineteenth-Century New England, 1805--1850.
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