Written by academics with extensive activist histories of their own, the focus of this text is ‘on protest and resistance, rather than on nonviolence as a philosophy, a social, economic and political theory or as a personal way of life’.
A history of nonviolence and the people who practice it as a way of life.
This book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century.