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BOOK REVIEWS and part of the challenge of creating "a common national identity for a diverse collection of citizen-strangers" (271). Robynne Rogers Healey Trinity Western University Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War. By Peter Brock. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii +447 pp. Index. $80.00 The late Peter Brock's contributions to the history of the peace movement are without parallel. In addition to his many books, he found time to write and publish numerous articles, some of them requiring research in languages foreign to the English-born Canadian historian. Against the Draft reprints 25 of these essays, most of them based on obscure documents and publications. This book demolishes the notion that conscientious objection is a recent phenomenon limited to a few countries. Virtually all nation-states have imposed some form of military conscription. For members of religious sects that opposed participation in war, or any individual who shared those views, conscription frequently meant prison or even death. Legal alternatives to military service were limited and frequently ignored. This book describes the long, difficult struggle of war resisters since the sixteenth century, when early Anabaptists faced the issue.
Quaker History – Friends Historical Association
Published: Dec 10, 2008
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