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Series
Social movements protest and contention volume 43
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Series
Social movements protest and contention volume 22
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
Author
Publisher
Extending Horizons Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Instructs how to strategically plan nonviolent action, a technique of waging conflict that uses protest, noncooperation and intervention. Draws parallels between nonviolent and military strategy. Documents twenty-three cases showing how nonviolent action has been applied to conflicts throughout the world in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
14) Civil resistance and power politics: the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English