CAHSS Faculty Articles
Title
History of Human Struggle Re-Examined
Department
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies
Publication Date
Summer 7-1974
Publication Title
Peace & Change
ISSN
0149-0508
Volume
2
Issue/No.
2
First Page
61
Last Page
63
Abstract
For historians Gene Sharp's The Politics of Non-Violent Action is a disturbing book. Sharp suggests that there might be unwilling (or willing) accomplices to building and perpetuating the myth of violence as the 'only really significant form of combat.' (p 72) According to Sharp, not only have historians romanticized the more dramatic and heroic acts of violence for good causes, but also they have almost totally neglected the vast, impressive human history of non-violent struggle. By their choices, historians have influenced hos the past is viewed as well as how the present is lived.
NSUWorks Citation
Katz, N. H. (1974). History of Human Struggle Re-Examined. Peace & Change, 2 (2), 61-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0130.1974.tb00216.x
ORCID ID
0000-0002-7289-5670
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0130.1974.tb00216.x
