Essays on Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Aung San Suu Kyi & Nadezhda Tolokonnik

by Bob Blaisdell

Book Overview

Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics "Civil Disobedience" and "Slavery in Massachusetts" to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot.
Additional selections include Leo Tolstoy's denouncement of capital punishment, "I Cannot Be Silent"; Bertrand Russell's "Civil Disobedience and the Threat of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486793818
• ISBN13: 9780486793818
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"