Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past - Softcover

Adolf, Antony; Paige, Glenn D.; Bennett, Scott H.; Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne; Chernus, Ira; Ebbesen, Martha A.; Chowdhury, Chipamong; Kumar, Ravindra; Jacob, Robert; Sanmartín, Israel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982298358 ISBN 13: 9780982298350

Publisher: Center for Global Nonkilling, 2010

Synopsis

The surprise insight from Nonkilling History is that what did not happen explains why humanity lives today. This turns upside down understanding of history as the story of the victory of righteous or reprehensible human violence in struggles to satisfy human aspirations, wants, and needs. In the introduction to nonkilling historiography that begins the present volume, editor Antony Adolf advances far beyond such common sense understanding. He establishes seminal methodology for establishing a new nonkilling science of history. Such a science will not only help to explain past to present human survival but will inform decisions, individual and collective, to promote future killing-free societies that sustain and celebrate human life. The invitation to explore nonkilling history in this volume will interest not only young and old scholars in history and other academic disciplines, but will surely invite nonkilling questions by general readers as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for Global Nonkilling
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0982298358
• ISBN 13: 9780982298350
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English