Book contents
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Bertha von Suttner
from 12 - Technology, Progress, and Environment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
Fifteen or twenty years ago, the penniless inventors who carried with them plans for construction of steerable balloons or flying machines approached the leaders of the peace movement. Help us to conquer the air, they said, and war will be overcome. The reasons they gave were more or less the following: borders would be obliterated, since neither barriers, nor toll fences, nor fortifications can be erected in the air; traffic, simplified and accelerated tenfold, would bring nations even closer than railroads and steamers already do; through this closeness, hostilities would vanish; and through the general rejoicing that such a wonderful achievement would arouse, people would rise above their petty hatreds and jealousies.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 643 - 646Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022