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M emoirs of a P eace H istorian
Author(s) -
Abrams Irwin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.0149-0508.2005.00306.x
Subject(s) - league , pleasure , reading (process) , subject (documents) , advertising , media studies , history , sociology , psychology , law , computer science , political science , business , world wide web , physics , astronomy , neuroscience
This article will tell the personal story of how I came to write about the peace movement and then something about my work on this subject during my year in Europe 1936–37 as a Harvard Sheldon Traveling Fellow. Due to time and space restrictions, I will concentrate mainly on my time in Geneva at the International Peace Bureau and the Library of the League of Nations. In the journal I started on January 18, 1936, I wrote, “I do not know how long I can keep this up, but if I am able to, how much pleasure I shall have when I, as a bearded and bent octogenarian, can read over this record.” I did keep it up through those years, and though I am not bearded and not too bent, but still an octogenarian for another month, I have indeed been reading with much enjoyment my pages about how this rather naive twenty‐two‐year‐old encountered Europe for the first time.