American nonviolence : the history of an idea / Ira Chernus.

Author/creator Chernus, Ira, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoMaryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2004.
Descriptionxiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The Anabaptists -- The Quakers -- William Lloyd Garrison and the abolitionists -- Henry David Thoreau -- The anarchists -- World War I : the crucial turning point -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- A.J. Muste -- Dorothy Day and the Catholic worker movement -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Barbara Deming -- Thich Nhat Hanh.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 222-230) and index.
LCCN 2004006501
ISBN1570755477 (pbk.)