Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/11/2007
ISBN: 9780099494126
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £9.99
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.
But there have always been a few who refused to fight. Following the grand sweep of history from Confucius to Tolstoy, Erasmus to Gandhi, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky traces pacifism and its proponents to show how many modern ideas, a united Europe, the United Nations, and the abolition of slavery - originated in non-violence movements.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/11/2007
ISBN: 9780099494126
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £9.99
This is a magnificent achievement
Erudite and eloquent
Kurlansky writes history with his heart firmly on his sleeve, unashamedly hopeful that people are becoming more tired of war, quicker to condemn it
Short and punchy and has a good heart... fascinating, vibrant and thought-provoking
This book is crammed with historical fact... thought provoking