From: Mel Page, East Tennessee State Univ. pagem@etsuarts.east-tenn-st.edu
In reponse to the large number of courses taught in my department on subjects related to war, I have decided to offer a special topics course on the history of peace and peace-making next fall. I have compiled an extensive bibliography of books and articles; I am aware of the studies available from the United States Institute of Peace.
Yet I still am having trouble identifying books for my students to use in the course which have any significant historical content (beyond the last fifty years or so). Any suggestions of such readings, still in print, which might be assigned to undergraduates, would be appreciated. Thanks!
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 07:33:12 -0500
From: Michael Nagler
University of California, Berkeley
mnagler@igc.apc.org
Dear Professor Page:
Your request for peace bibliography, quite understandable given the relative neglect of peace compared to war, was relayed to me. I list out below a few representative items from my own bibliography; I'm sorry I don't have more time to annotate it for you. Note the names Kenneth Boulding, Johan Galtung, and Peter Brock if you are not already familiar with them: they are leading scholars in the field with many publications. You could also contact the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (bwien@gmu.edu) and the Conflict Resolution Consortium at Boulder College for much bigger bibliographies. Are you familiar with the Swarthmore College Peace Collection? It's the best, perhaps in the world.
I have included several items relating to peace brigades, which is the hottest' item in peace development now, with the failure of standard UN peacekeeping. I have written a booklet on this called PEACEMAKING THROUGH NONVIOLENCE which I can send you for postage if you furnish your mailing address. However, this is a very fast-breaking field and you may want to be in touch with Michael Beer at Nonviolence International <mbeer@capaccess.org> for newer developments and publications.
(I am emeritus, but still teaching, at UC, Berkeley: Classics, Comp.Lit., and Peace and Conflict Studies. Am also President of an educational non-profit (very non-) called METTA: Centers for Nonviolence Education. We put out a resource list with basic works on nonviolence you may be interested in. Order from jphoenix@igc.apc.org or (707) 792-4225.)
Best wishes with your course.
Michael N. Nagler (Prof.)
PEACE: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Bearings Illustrated and Defended . Philadelphia:
the Nuclear Era." ():1115-9.
Social Issues 13, no. 1 (1977): 22-33.
Peace and Change 7, no. 1&2 (1981): 71-84.
Political Cultures. University of Tennasee, 1986.
Defense Intellectuals." Signs 12, no. 4 (1987): 687-718.
Independence, 1765-1775, Edd Walter Jr. Conser, and others. Boulder: Riener, 1986.
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Soldier of Islam. Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1984.
Jr.: Law and International Order.": 43-116.
Interdisciplinary Approach. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980.
no. 4-25 (1982).
(1987).
Societies: Homicide Among the Gebusi of New Guinea." Current Anthropology 28, no. 4 (1987): 457-500.
Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1986.
Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Bobbs merrill, 1966.
University Press, 1973.
Order. New York: Paulist, 1977.
to Save the Forest Wealth. New Delhi: Gandhi Book House, 1978.
Oxford University Press, 1978.
Hills, CA: Sage, 1983).
Conscientious Objection. New York: Oxford, 1993.
Orbis: 1986.
of Satyagraha. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1974.
New York: 1923.
Tuscon: University of Arizona, 1988.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Own Words. Santa Fe, NM: Ocean Tree, 1983.
Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1960.
New Haven: Yale University, 1974.
Uprising -- Israel's Third Front. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Und Gegenwart." in Unterwegs Zum Frieden, Edd R. Weiler & V. Zsifkovits. Vienna: Herder, 1973.
Ballinger, 1985).
Omaha: Association for Transarmament Studies, 1985.
Theory and Practice of Nonviolence. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.
(): 393-401.
Intellectual Map. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 1991.
for Peacekeeping. Hyderabad: Academy of Gandhian Studies, 1981.
Peace Team: An Assessment of Unarmed Interpositionary Peace Forces." Journal of Peace Research 30, no. 1 (1993): 45-64.
New Delhi: Penguin, 1989.
Bibliography of Mennonite Writings on War and Peace: 1930-1980. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987).
Peacekeeping Corps." (Unpublished: Available From the Author, 340 Pine Avenue, Deptford, NJ 08096) (1993).
About It." (-): 605-17.
Torino: ERI Edizioni RAI Radiotelevisione italiana) 1967, english translation: The Idea of Peace in Antiquity, tr. by Richard Dunn, Notre Dame/Ind., 1967.
Governments in the Third World: a New Kind of Revolution." Third World Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1994): 403-26.
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 07:31:25 -0500
From: JoAnne Black
Santa Rosa Junior College
jblack@odie.santarosa.edu
Coincidentally, there is a bibliographic essay on Peace History published in the current issue of _Choice_. This is a collection development magazine for college librarians and most libraries will have it, although perhaps not in the public display area. Information given there says that reprints are available for $2.50 from Reprint Dept, Choice Magazine, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457. Gerlof Homan, "Peace History: a Bibliographical Overview" Choice. May, 1995 p. 1408-1419
JoAnne Black
reference librarian
Santa Rosa Junior College
jblack@odie.santarosa.edu