Prologue; 1: First Efforts; 2: Women at the Hague; 3: Private Diplomacy in Europe; 4: Peace Workers and the Wilson Administration; 5: More Momentum and New Directions; 6: Climax and Anticlimax; 7: Two Discomfiting Episodes; 8: Reappraisals and Political Realities; 9: Peace Feelers in Europe; 10: Woodrow Wilson's Independent Mediation; 11: Aftermath; Conclusion
David Patterson has served as a historian in both academia and government. Besides teaching at several universities, he was chief editor of the Foreign Relations of the United States series at the U.S. Department of State for several yeras. Besides numerous scholarly articles, Patterson is author of Toward a Warless World: The Travail of the American Peace Movement, 1887-1914.
"In this engaged and insightful narrative of the internationally-minded citizens' peace movement of the Great War era, David Patterson helps us appreciate that we can, indeed must, study flawed efforts to achieve peace in past times to help us fashion a more humane and peaceful world for the future." --Frances H. Early, author of A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I "Patterson's study, weaving diplomatic records with private papers, provides a thorough appreciation of that unpopular but far-seeking commitment where women's initiatives were crucial. It shows what was visionary and "utopian" in 1914 became received wisdom by war's end." --Sandi E. Cooper, author of Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914 "[A] welcome contribution to the fields of peace and diplomatic history ... Patterson offers an intriguing multiyear glimpse into the lives of peace activists who pressed on despite often-discouraging responses from foreign government officials ... One of the book's strengths is its focus on the interplay of the women's longstanding domestic reform agendas and their international diplomatic efforts to bring the war to an end and to negotiate postwar reforms." --Rachel Waltner Goossen, Washburn University, in Peace & Change "Readers interested in an exceptionally detailed accounting of the efforts of ordinary citizens to secure a negotiated peace will find this volume indispensable." --Kara Dixon Guic, Bridgewater College, USA, in First World War Studies
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