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Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians

2 A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575)

3 Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden

4 Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy

5 Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France

6 The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question

7 Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands

8 When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America

9 Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814–1902

10 Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary

11 Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia

12 The Škarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan

13 The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan

14 ‘Boy Conscription’ in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters

15 Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars

16 Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War

17 Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists

18 The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany

19 Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914–February 1917

20 Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union

21 Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945

22 Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland

23 Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain

24 British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War

25 Jehovah’s Witnesses as Conscientious Objectors in Nazi Germany

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