Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936) and the American Peace Movement
Author: | Craig, John |
Year: | 1990 |
Pages: | 232 |
ISBN: | 0-88946-094-9 978-0-88946-094-2 |
Price: | $179.95 |
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Details the life and times of Lucia Ames Mead, a writer, literature teacher, leading female pacifist, and transitional figure whose thinking foreshadowed later ideas on propaganda. Fills a lacuna in the scant historical coverage of the American peace movement, especially of female participants therein.
Reviews
"[Received] the university President's Award for Outstanding Publication. . . . has the flow of a novel but challenges readers to comprehend an entire historical era to understand the significance of Miss Mead's work." - The Sharon Herald, PA