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Pacifism in the United States from the Colonial Era to the First World War. By Peter Brock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. xii + 1005 pp. $18.50.

A book of a thousand pages is not easy to review in a few hundred words. The author himself helps the reader in that his opening chapter is a precis of the whole and his conclusion is an admirable summation. He has amassed a vast amount of factual material, enlivened by biographical sketches and the recital of striking incidents. All the way through he engages in dispassionate narrative and discriminating evaluation. Attention is centered mainly on the three "peace churches": the Anabaptists (including the Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites), the Church of the Brethren, and the Quakers, who receive the major attention. Some notice is taken of the Schwenckfelders, Shakers, Jehovah's Witnesses and Adventists. In the nineteenth century he deals with non-sectarian groups with a religious motivation. The arrangement is chronological with consideration of the attitudes of the various groups in each period. The general observation is that the radicalism of the European beginnings of the non-resistant churches was tempered through contact with the environmental forces of the new world, whereas in the nineteenth century a similar process of departure from original patterns led many New England churchmen in the crusading tradition to adopt pacifist views.