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'I Don't Believe In Murder'Delve into a compelling narrative with 'I Don't Believe In Murder' by Margaret Lovell Smith, published by Canterbury University Press. This insightful book explores the experiences of over 350 men imprisoned in New Zealand during World War I for sedition and resisting military service. Discover the stories of dedicated pacifists from Canterbury who courageously opposed the burgeoning militarism and imperialism of the era. This alternative history
Delve into a compelling narrative with 'I Don't Believe In Murder' by Margaret Lovell-Smith, published by Canterbury University Press. This insightful book explores the experiences of over 350 men imprisoned in New Zealand during World War I for sedition and resisting military service. Discover the stories of dedicated pacifists from Canterbury who courageously opposed the burgeoning militarism and imperialism of the era. This alternative history offers a unique perspective on the pre-war landscape, wartime conscription, and the indomitable spirit of the labour, socialist, and women's movements in Christchurch.As you navigate through its 328 pages, you will be drawn into the powerful accounts of young men who bravely refused to take up arms. Their commitment to their consciences led them to face imprisonment and the loss of civil rights, standing firm in their religious, humanitarian, or political beliefs against the war. Utilizing archives, newspapers, and personal collections, this book is an essential resource for understanding the moral challenges faced during a nation’s involvement in armed conflict.
'I Don't Believe In Murder' is a vital addition for historians, educators, and anyone interested in social justice and peace movements. Perfect for readers who appreciate in-depth explorations of historical events and their impact on society. The book is a standard paperback, measuring 170 x 240 mm, making it an ideal choice for your bookshelf.
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'I Don't Believe In Murder'
Author: Margaret Lovell-Smith Publisher: Canterbury University Press
More than 350 men were imprisoned in New Zealand during World War I for sedition or resisting military service. Among them were numerous Canterbury pacifists, motivated to resist the tide of militarism and imperialism that was sweeping the world. I Don't Believe In Murder is an alternative history of the years before, during and after New Zealand's involvement in World War I. It depicts the strong response made by Canterbury's labour, socialist and women's movements to pre-war compulsory military training and wartime conscription. Most importantly, it tells the stories of the people who made Christchurch the leading city in the peace movement, and of the young men who refused to fight, enduring imprisonment, hardships and loss of civil rights - all determined to follow their consciences and take a religious, humanitarian or political stand against war. Drawing on archives, newspapers and family collections, this is a crucial narrative for understanding the moral dilemmas posed by a country's participation in armed conflict.
Bind: paperback
Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
Pages: 328
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Silly little book
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My daughter love this book. We read it over and over again until I had to make her choose something different t. The story is so cute and the illustrations are really fun.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2026
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Great book
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Love this book. I bought two of the other books in this series. My niece loved it.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2026
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Perfect for spring time!
Format: Hardcover
Such a great book series I love reading it to my boys!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2026
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Good buy
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This is a super cute book! It teaches about spring and we enjoy reading it!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2026
★★★★★ 5
"Racial Capitalism"
Format: Paperback
Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism is first a history of Black people appearing in historical texts as far back as Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BCE) in ancient Greece, and second a history of “the collisions of the Black and white ‘races’ beginning in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.” Robinson’s thesis connects the evolution of capitalism to its roots in racism (racialism) understood in broad terms to comprise the subjugation of one class/group/nation/race by another (the Irish by the English in the nineteenth century, for example). He uses the term “racial capitalism” to express this process—the necessity of opposing classes for the function of capitalism. As a result, “racialism,” he says, “would inevitably permeate the social structures emergent from capitalism.” Keynes attributed the slow change in the “standard of life of the average man” until the beginning of the eighteenth century to “the remarkable absence of important technical improvements and to the failure of capital to accumulate.” Capital is accumulated, in Marx’s view, through the accretion of “surplus labor” which is the extra time a worker “must add to the working time necessary for his own maintenance . . . in order to produce the means of subsistence for the owners of the means of production.” Robinson ties capitalism’s early exploitation of surplus labor to slave labor and the slave trade noting, “historically, slavery was a critical foundation for capitalism.” Robinson traces the forced transport of Black people from Africa (the diaspora) to Europe, as well as Central, South, and North America as a foundation of early capitalism (and slavery as its form of “primitive accumulation” of capital). In his discussions of slavery, Robinson stresses the sense of the enslaved people with respect to their captors in terms of the slaves’ resistance, hostility, and defiance of the masters—their “Black radicalism.” As Robinson’s text approaches the twentieth century and the influence of Marx, his focus narrows to the significance and character of specific Black leaders including W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright and their respective connections to Marxism’s diverse interpretations. Marxism, says Robinson, “has proven insufficiently radical to expose and root out the racialist order that contaminates its analytic and philosophic applications or to come to effective terms with the implications of its own class origins.”
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
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