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Hoover's library materials encompass nearly 300,000 titles, with the total number of volumes well over half a million. These holdings include books, periodicals, newspapers, and other distinctive and rare publications that support research on war, revolution, and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our library materials related to peace and pacifism.  

Library Materials

Democracy and peace: This pamphlet takes its rise from a conference on the theme of 'Democracy and the peace' arranged by the National Peace Council and held in Oxford during 1945.

Peace? A critical study of America's peace aims and an analysis of what many world leaders propose: Analysis of the works on peace by Imre Kovacs, Jan Masaryk, R.L. Humber, W.L. Willkie, Sumner Welles, Ely Culbertson, Norman Angell, Leland Stowe, Herbert Hoover, W. Lippman, M. Whiteleather, Gandhi, L. Adamic, R.G. Swing and H.A. Wallace.

Peace and disarmament; Soviet proposals: Reports, speeches, and proposals for disarmament by Soviet officials. 

Peace and war: Topics include: War: then and now.--The problem of peace.--The end of monarchy.--Paganism and Christianity in the modern world.--Transatlantic talks: The Puritan and the skyscraper. The banker and the king. Prohibition and democracy.

Peace handbooks: Issued by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office. Originally prepared for the information and use of the British delegates to the Paris Peace Conference.

Peace research : definitions and objectives : a bibliography: The references in this bibliography cover the various aspects of Peace Research. Five categories have been distinguished for the purpose of giving the researcher a clearer understanding of the various facets of peace research. 

Peace year book: Peace periodical by the London National Peace Council.

Procedures of peace-making with special reference to the present war: Composed in two parts with the first being a summary of a report on procedures of peace-making prepared by the legislative reference service. All documentation pertaining to the issues involved will be found cited in the main report, which constitutes part II. 

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