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Peter Brock (1920–2006) was an English-born Canadian historian who specialized in the history of pacifism and Eastern Europe. ==Life== Peter Brock was born in 1920 on Guernsey, Channel Islands. Although he came from a military family, he rejected this tradition. While studying at Exeter College, Oxford, he came under the influence of pacifist ideas, particularly those of Bart de Ligt.〔Harvey Dyck and Andrew Rossos. "Peter Brock (1920-2006)", ''Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes'', Vol. 49, No. 1/2 (March–June 2007), pp. 1-4〕 During the Second World War, he declared as a conscientious objector and was briefly imprisoned.〔 He spent the rest of the war on alternative service, including working in a hospital. After the war, Brock worked with a Quaker relief mission to Germany and Poland, sparking his interest in Eastern Europe. After the mission ended, Brock took graduate study at Jagiellonian University, receiving a doctorate in history in 1950. Brock later emigrated to Canada and settled there, working at the University of Toronto from 1966.〔 Brock's work on the study of peoples in Eastern Europe included detailed studies of the history and culture of the culture of the Poles, Czechs, and Ukrainians. Brock often learned the languages of the culture he was studying in order to read source material in these languages.〔John D. Stanley, "Peter Brock: An Appreciation," ''Canadian Slavonic Papers'' 31 (June 1989): 105-106.〕 Brock's studies on pacifism included a trilogy of books, ''Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War'' (1968),''Pioneers of the Peaceable Kingdom'' (1970), and ''Twentieth-Century Pacifism'' (1970). The last book, appearing as the Vietnam War protests had revived public interest in pacifism, was "a critical and popular success".〔〔R.S. White, ''Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace''. Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-55317-0 (p.76)〕 By 1973, historian Robert Scharf said that "Professor Brock has become a recognised authority on pacifism in our Western civilization",〔Robert Scharf, "''Pacifism in Europe to 1914'' by Peter Brock (Book Review)", ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 407, (May, 1973), p. 210.〕 while political scientist Martin Ceadel stated "()o ideology owes more to one academic than pacifism owes to Peter Brock. That the scope and richness of this historical tradition can now be recognized is largely the result of Brock's sympathetic and dedicated scholarship, which was begun when pacifism was an unfashionable subject."〔Martin Ceadel, "Ten Distinctions for Peace Historians," in ''The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective'', ed. by Harvey L. Dyck. University of Toronto Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8020-0777-3 (p. 17).〕 A revised edition of the third book, ''Pacifism in the Twentieth Century'' was published in 1999 with Nigel Young.〔David Cortright, ''Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas''. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-85402-3 (p. 70).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Brock (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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