World Peace
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- University teachers and students in the history of international law and the peace movement who need primary intellectual texts
- Readers interested in modern European political thought who want to understand prewar pacifist arguments
- English learners preparing for close reading of public-domain English books who need political-essay corpus material
- General readers concerned with the intellectual origins of international organizations and global governance
Not a good fit for
- Ordinary literary readers expecting fiction or narrative reading
- Researchers seeking empirical data and policy analysis of contemporary international relations
- Beginners with limited English reading stamina who are easily discouraged by long nineteenth-century political sentences
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and conclusion first to grasp the author's core claims and argumentative framework, then return to the middle chapters
- Mark the treaties, cases, and figures the author cites as you read, and verify the background with reference works on the history of international law
- After each chapter, restate its argument in two or three sentences to check whether you have truly followed the chain of reasoning
- Read alongside other pacifist texts of the same period to compare argumentative strategies and the assumptions of the era
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
K. P. Arnoldson (1844–1916) was a Swedish politician and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. Publicly available information about his life is limited, so details of his educational work, parliamentary career and peace organizations are not elaborated here. One work by him is held in the collection, Pax mundi. Judging from its title and the author's identity, the book is likely a political tract on pacifism and international arbitration, advocating the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations and opposing war. Writing of this kind is usually addressed to the general public, plain in style and clear in argument, which suits his role as a social activist. As a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, his ideas and writings had some influence on the peace movement of the early twentieth century and may be of interest to readers studying early pacifist thought.
