An Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature
Identifies a persistent subculture in North America that counters the dominant ideology of aggression by envisioning, proposing, and working towards nonviolent methods of solving conflict on both personal and social levels. Begins by surveying the pamphlets and other literature from the first two centuries of European settlement, then proceeds through the centuries through passive resistance, labor agitation, religious dissent, draft resistance, the civil rights movement, nuclear disarmament, anti- imperialism, and other strains. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
|
Contents
|
The Peaceable Kingdom 16071776
|
3 |
|
Passive Resistance 17761865
|
18 |
|
Labor Agitation and Religious Dissent 18651914
|
37 |
|
Conscientious Objection and Civil Rights 19401965
|
75 |
|
Antiimperialism 19651990
|
99 |
|
Against Forgetting 1990 and After
|
120 |
|
120
|
141 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abolitionist advocated Ammon Hennacy anarchists anthology antiwar arms artists associated Ballou Boston Bourne Burritt campaigns Catholic Worker movement central century Christian citizens Civil Disobedience civil rights colonies committed conflict conscientious objectors critics culture Daniel Berrigan Debs Denise Levertov Dorothy Day draft resistance dramatized early effort essays example Ezra Heywood Gandhi Garrison Goldman Hawthorne Hawthorne's Hennacy human initiated injustice jail James John justice killing Kunitz labor later literary literature lives Lowell Martin Luther King memoir military Muriel Rukeyser nation nonresistance nonviolent activists nonviolent direct action nonviolent tradition novels nuclear pacifists Paine Paine's pamphlets Peace Movement period poems poetry poets policies political Press prison protest Quakers radical reform refused regarded religious Revolution Robert Robert Bly social change socialists stories strategy struggle Thomas Thomas Merton Thoreau tion Tolstoy tradition of nonviolence United Univ Vietnam Vietnam War violence Wobblies women Woolman writings wrote York Zahn