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Title The quiet battle : writings on the theory and practice of non-violent resistance / edited with an introduction and afterword by Mulford Q. Sibley.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, 1968.
©1963

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 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  303.61 Q4 1968    ---  Lib Use Only
Description viii, 386 pages ; 21 cm.
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Series Beacon paperback ; no. 311
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foundations of non-violence and non-violent resistance -- Ancient religious statements -- Voluntary servitude / Etienne de La Boetie -- Freedom and non-violence / William Godwin, Percy B. Shelley -- Civil disobedience and non-violent resistance / Henry D. Thoreau -- The origins of Satyagraha doctrine / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Violence, non-violence, and the uses of coercion / George Coe, Kirby Page -- The social significance of non-violent conduct / C.M. Case -- Non-violence, the state, and war / Richard Gregg -- Non-violent power without express principle -- The effectiveness of non-violent struggle / Barthelemy de Ligt -- A revolutionary strike in ancient Rome / Theodor Mommsen -- Jewish non-violence and Roman military power / Flavius Josephus -- The general strike and non-violent power / Wilfred H. Crook -- The resurrection of Hungary / Arthur Griffith -- Non-violent resistance and the Nazis : the case of Norway / A.K. Jameson -- Vorkuta :strike in a concentration camp / Joseph Scholmer -- Non-violent power with express principle -- Colonial Pennsylvania : the quest for non-violence / Isaac Sharpless -- Las Casas and the land of war / John Fiske -- Applied Satyagraha in India / Krishnalal Shridharani " -- South Africa: the beginning of non-violent resistance / Leo Kuper, Albert Luthuli -- Non-violence and the American Negro / C. Eric Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Direct action against preparation for war / Neil Haworth and Peace News -- Toward a non-violent national defense / Jessie Wallace Hughan.
Subject Passive resistance.
Nonviolence.
Added Author Sibley, Mulford Q., 1912-1989 editor.

 
    
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