a violent agenda
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history of slavery
history of the world
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military history
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salt a world history
slavery and capitalism
the basque history of the world
the enslavement
the history of food
the neighbour war
the unexpected peacekeeper
trouble with peace
united nations
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white slavery
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099494126
- Weight: 159g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Mark Kurlansky is the bestselling author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award), The Basque History of the World, Salt: A World History, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, a short story collection The White Man in the Tree and a novel Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue (all published by Cape and Vintage). He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
