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By: Brock, Peter
Price: $9.00
Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200927
Condition: Very Good
First edition. 1991 Hard Cover. x, 385 pp. As long as governments engage in warfare, there will be citizens who organize to resist. The roots of nonviolent activism in Western society are deep, going back centuries in Europe and crossing over to North America more than three hundred years ago. Peter Brock traces the history of a long line of Christian sects that have rejected both the violence involved in war and the violence involved in the administration of the state, concluding the story with the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.Among the earliest of these groups to emerge were the medieva... View more info