Title:
Non-Violence, the history of a dangerous idea
Authors:
Mark Kurlansky
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape London
Pages:
185
Year:
en
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780224077910
Categories:
East-West
Copies:
1 total
Not borrowed since:
Thu May 26 2022
Description:
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. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how societies promote warfare and glorify violence. But ther 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.