If you are bringing books to sell us, please be aware:
-We are currently not buying for cash.         
-We are doing limited exchanges and store credit.

Upcoming Holiday Hours
-
Friday 29th March (Good Friday) -Closed
Sunday 31st March (Easter Sunday) -Closed
Monday 1st April (Easter Monday) -12midday - 6pm
Thursday 25th April (ANZAC Day) -Closed

Non-Violence - The History of a Dangerous Idea
Title:
Non-Violence - The History of a Dangerous Idea
Kurlansky, Mark
$19.00

Previous owner's name inside this copy.

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 occured as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. his approach to history is only one of many examples of how societies promote warfare and glorify violence. But there have always been a few who have refused to fight. Governments have long regarded this minority as a danger to society and have imprisoned and abused them and encouraged their persecution. his was true of those who refused Europe s wars, who refused to fight for their king, who refused to fight for Napoleon as well as against him. It was true of Virginia Woolf s sister Vanessa and her husband Clive Bell outcasts in rural Sussex because they opposed World War I at a time when the British socialist movement described a bayonet as a weapon with a worker on each end.It was true of the first American draft dodger, a Menonite who believed in American independence but believed it was wrong to use violence and rejected the call of his local militia. It was true of the many abolitionists who had dedicated their lives to stopping slavery but refused to fight in the Civil War...

Second hand Hardback
Stock: 
0
ISBN: 
9780224077910
SKU:
84584