But There Was No Peace

Author: George C. Rable
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative nature of Federal policy in the Reconstruction South. However, George C. Rable argues, white southerners saw the intent and the results of that policy as revolutionary. Violence therefore became a counterrevolutionary instrument, placing the South in a pattern familiar to students of world revolution.

Peace and Freedom

Author: Simon Hall
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked themes: the civil rights movement's response to the war in Vietnam on the one hand and, on the other, the relationship between the black groups that opposed the war and the mainstream peace movement. Based on comprehensive archival research, the book weaves together local and national stories to offer an illuminating and judicious chronicle of these movements, demonstrating how their increasingly radicalized components both found common cause and provoked mutual antipathies. Peace and Freedom shows how and why the civil rights movement responded to the war in differing ways—explaining black militants' hostility toward the war while also providing a sympathetic treatment of those organizations and leaders reluctant to take a stand. And, while Black Power, counterculturalism, and left-wing factionalism all made interracial coalition-building more difficult, the book argues that it was the peace movement's reluctance to link the struggle to end the war with the fight against racism at home that ultimately prevented the two movements from cooperating more fully. Considering the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and foreign policy, Hall also offers an in-depth look at the history of black America's links with the American left and with pacifism. With its keen insights into one of the most controversial decades in American history, Peace and Freedom recaptures the immediacy and importance of the time.

Painting for Peace in Ferguson

Author: Carol Swartout Klein
Publisher: Treehouse Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780989207997
Category : Art and social action
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Through poetry and art, [this book] tells the story of hundreds of artists and volunteers who turned boarded up windows into works of art with messages of hope, healing and unity"--

Beyond Appeasement

Author: Cecelia Lynch
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801435485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
The interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and ineffective. More seriously, the standard histories have also held that they severely weakened national efforts to resist Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Cecelia Lynch provides a long-overdue reevaluation of these movements. Throughout the work she challenges these interpretations, particularly regarding the postwar understanding of Realism, which forms the basis of core assumptions in international relations theory.The Realist account labels support for interwar peace movements as idealist. It holds that this support--largely pacifist in Britain, largely isolationist in the United States--led to overreliance on the League of Nations, appeasement, and eventually the onset of global war. Through a careful examination of both the social history of the peace movements and the diplomatic history of the interwar era, Lynch uncovers the serious contradictions as well as the systematic limitations of Realist understanding and outlines the making of the structure of the world community that would emerge from the war.Lynch focuses on the construction of the United Nations as evidence that the conventional history is incomplete as well as misleading. She brings to light the role of social movements in the formation of the normative underpinnings of the U.N., thus requiring scholars to rethink their understanding of the repercussions of the interwar experience as well as the significance of social movements for international life.

Peace as a Woman's Issue

Author: Harriet Hyman Alonso
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the mothers of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.

I See Peace

Author: Maya Gonzalez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984379941
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Focusing on the very big idea of peace, this small book is compact enough to carry with you wherever you go. Part story book and part guided journal, i see peace uncovers the truth about a very real and personal experience of peace and how to create it in our own lives. Award-winning children's book illustrator/author and educator, Maya Gonzalez uses simple words and even more simple ink drawings to create both a universal and intimate experience of peace. Readers are invited to not only write in the guided journal portion of the book, but to draw or color all over the book. Come play with Maya and learn that peace is often closer than we think.

The People Make the Peace

Author: Karin Aguilar-San Juan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935982586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Nine U.S. activists discuss the parts they played in opposing the war at home and their risky travels to Vietnam in the midst of the conflict to engage in people-to-people diplomacy. In 2013, the 'Hanoi 9' activists revisited Vietnam together; this book presents their thoughtful reflections on those experiences, as well as the stories of five U.S. veterans who returned to make reparations. Their successes in antiwar organizing will challenge the myths that still linger from that era, and inspire a new generation seeking peaceful solutions to war and conflict today"--

I See Peace

Author: Maya Gonzalez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945289101
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Focusing on the very big idea of peace, "i see peace" uncovers the truth about a very real and personal experience of peace and how we can create it in our own lives. Simple words and even more simple ink drawings encourage kids to allow peace to become something personal and possible & from there be able to talk about and work for it effectively.

The Contemporary US Peace Movement

Author: Laura Toussaint
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135851638
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
As peace activists have faced increased government repression and accusations of being unpatriotic since 9/11, Toussaint examines how current attempts to control dissent impact the peace movement. This study offers an analysis of self-identified peace activists in terms of their demographic characteristics, motivation for activism, political opportunities, and views of the peace movement. It also discusses the processes involved in successfully mobilizing an increasingly diverse constituency and how broad-based support can be sustained beyond reacting to crises.

Out of War

Author: Sara J. Cameron
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439297219
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Chronicles the stories of Columbian children who have lost parents, homes, schools, and any hope of day-to-day security, yet work for change and face the future with the confidence that their efforts will make a difference.