Nonviolence : the history of a dangerous idea
Kurlansky, Mark2006
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The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind were put forward in an effort to win one violent bloody conflict or another. But there have always been those who refused to fight. This book is about them.
Main title:
Nonviolence : the history of a dangerous idea / Mark Kurlansky ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Collation:
xii, 203 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.
ISBN:
9780224077910 (hbk)
Dewey class:
303.66303.66KUR
Language:
English
BRN:
735749