Peace and Bread in Time of War: An American Pacifist's Account of World War One and its Aftermath - Softcover

Addams, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789874750 ISBN 13: 9781789874754

Verlag: Pantianos Classics, 1922

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Jane Addams was deeply opposed to World War One and its immense costs - social, moral, and financial. In this book she discusses her philosophy of pacifism, and her ideas for reform in the United States. Published in 1922, this book describes the author's feelings about the outbreak of war in Europe, and observing how the situation deteriorated as the terrible conflict wore on. The unceasing and vast expenditures of lives and materiel placed Addams in opposition to the USA joining the war, which led to her energetically lobbying for influence, delivering speeches, holding conferences and meetings to persuade officials against joining the maelstrom of destruction. Her anti-interventionist stance polarized Americans: some supported Addams' views, while others rebuked her. The author also shares her ideas on what societies should aim for with peace. Many of her opinions were inspired from experience; Addams' founded Hull House - a settlement house designed to unite the poor in cooperation with more fortunate members of society. The challenge she issues to the-then new League of Nations is to ensure that the citizens of all member nations are fed and afforded dignity, that the organization devote much of its resources to humanitarian causes which Addams' considered to transcend politics.

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Jane Addams (1860-1935) was an American reformer, writer, lecturer, social philosopher, peace activist, and one of the most important public intellectuals of the Progressive Era. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, she was educated at Rockford Female Seminary and spent years searching for a useful public vocation at a time when educated women faced narrow professional options. Her travels in Europe, especially her visit to Toynbee Hall in London, helped inspire her vision of a settlement house rooted in shared life, social research, education, and democratic reform.In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr. Hull House became one of the most famous settlement houses in the United States, serving immigrants, workers, women, children, and poor families while also becoming a center for social investigation and reform. Addams and her colleagues worked on issues including child labor, public health, housing, education, labor conditions, juvenile justice, recreation, women's rights, and immigrant support. Her work helped shape the development of social work, urban reform, sociology, and Progressive Era politics.Addams wrote widely on democracy, ethics, peace, labor, women's roles, and social obligation. Her books include Democracy and Social Ethics, Newer Ideals of Peace, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, Twenty Years at Hull-House, and The Long Road of Woman's Memory. She was also a major figure in the international peace movement and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Today she remains central to the history of American reform, feminist thought, social ethics, settlement work, peace activism, and the idea that democracy must be lived through institutions, neighborhoods, and daily responsibility.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pantianos Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1922
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1789874750
• ISBN 13: 9781789874754
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114
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