Security Against War: Volume I International Controversies; Volume II Arbitration, Disarmament, Outlawry.

KELLOR, Frances; Collaborator Antonia Hatvany.

$850.00

Item Number: 129399

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.

First editions of this work by social reformer Frances Kellor. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets, which are in very good condition.

Social reformer and journalist Frances Kellor wrote these volumes as a response to the international devastation of World War I. They were published during the height of hope for a functioning League of Nations, and her longstanding professional research on immigration and the rights of women provides a thematic focus for many passages. Before producing these two volumes, Kellor, one of the first women law graduates from Cornell, had been more intra-nationally focused. In 1904, she published a volume called "Out of Work" dealing with the acculturation and employment of immigrants to America, and in 1906 she founded the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, an association to fight the mistreatment of African American women moving north in the decades following the end of slavery.