Bibliography

“Every home should have a peace library. Every person should be reading a peace book.”

The literature of peace is vast. The following is a sampling — well short of comprehensive, representing only a fraction of what has been written. It draws on the reading lists, syllabi, course materials, and book reviews that Colman McCarthy assembled over more than thirty years of teaching nonviolence.

Works by Colman McCarthy

  • McCarthy, Colman. I’d Rather Teach Peace. Washington, DC: Center for Teaching Peace, 2002.
  • McCarthy, Colman. All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
  • McCarthy, Colman. Inner Companions. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1975.
  • McCarthy, Colman. Involvements: One Journalist’s Place in the World. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1984.
  • McCarthy, Colman. Disturbers of the Peace: Profiles in Non Adjustment. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
  • McCarthy, Colman. At Rest with the Animals. Washington, DC: Center for Teaching Peace.
  • McCarthy, Colman. Pleasures of the Game: The Theory-Free Guide to Golf. New York: Dial Press, 1977.
  • McCarthy, Colman, ed. Solutions to Violence. Washington, DC: Center for Teaching Peace, 2000.
  • McCarthy, Colman, ed. Strength Through Peace: The Ideas and People of Nonviolence. Washington, DC: Center for Teaching Peace, 2005.
  • McCarthy, Colman, ed. Peace Is Possible. Washington, DC: Center for Teaching Peace, 2012.

Nonviolence: History and Philosophy

  • Ackerman, Peter and Jack Duvall. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
  • Altman, Nathaniel. The Nonviolent Revolution: A Comprehensive Guide to Ahimsa — the Philosophy of Dynamic Harmlessness. Dorset, Great Britain: Element Books, 1998.
  • Chatfield, Charles, ed. Peace Movements in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1973.
  • Chernus, Ira. American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.
  • Dellinger, David. Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1971.
  • Holmes, Robert L. Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1990.
  • Lynd, Staughton and Alice Lynd. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995.
  • Moorehead, Caroline. Troublesome People: The Warriors of Pacifism. Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1987.
  • Nagler, Michael N. The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2001.
  • Schell, Jonathan. The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.
  • Seeley, Robert. The Handbook of Nonviolence: An Encyclopedia of Pacifism. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1986.
  • Sharp, Gene. The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action: Part Three. Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973.
  • True, Michael. An Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Gandhi, Tolstoy, and the Spiritual Tradition

  • Gandhi, Mohandas K. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.
  • Merton, Thomas, ed. Gandhi on Nonviolence: A Selection from the Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. New York: New Directions, 1964.
  • Merton, Thomas. The Nonviolent Alternative. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.
  • Shannon, William H. Seeds of Peace: Contemplation and Non-Violence. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1996.
  • Tolstoy, Leo. The Kingdom of God Is Within You. 1894.
  • Douglass, James W. The Non-Violent Cross: The Theology of Revolution and Peace. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
  • Nolt, John. Down to Earth: Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolent Living. Washburn, TN: Earth Knows Publications, 1995.
  • Vanderhaar, Gerald A. Active Non-Violence: A Way of Personal Peace. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1990.

Peacemakers and Activists

  • Berrigan, Daniel. To Dwell in Peace: An Autobiography. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987.
  • Cobban, Helena. The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Our Future. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
  • Coles, Robert. Lives of Moral Leadership. New York: Random House, 2000.
  • Coles, Robert. The Moral Intelligence of Children. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998.
  • Cornell, Thomas C., Robert Ellsberg and Jim Forest, eds. A Penny a Copy: Readings from The Catholic Worker. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995.
  • Davis, Garry. Dear World — A Global Odyssey. Xlibris, 2003.
  • Dear, John, S.J. The Sacrament of Civil Disobedience. Baltimore: Fortkamp Publishing, 1994.
  • Hentoff, Nat. Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J. Muste. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
  • Laffin, Arthur J. Swords into Plowshares: Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament. Marion, SD: Fortkamp Publishing, 1996.
  • McSorley, Richard T., S.J. My Path to Peace and Justice: An Autobiography. Marion, SD: Fortkamp Publishing, 1996.

War, Militarism, and Resistance

  • Gara, Larry and Lenna Mae Gara. A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999.
  • Hallock, Daniel. Hell, Healing and Resistance: Veterans Speak. Farmington, PA: Plough Publishing, 1998.
  • Polner, Murray, ed. We Who Dared Say No to War. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
  • Schell, Jonathan. The Fate of the Earth. New York: Knopf, 1982.
  • Wittner, Lawrence. Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • Zinn, Howard. Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

Peace Education

  • Adams, Judith Porter. Peacework: Oral Histories of Women Peace Activists. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.
  • Diamond, Louise. The Peace Book: 108 Simple Ways to Create a More Peaceful World. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2001.
  • Drew, Naomi. Peaceful Parents, Peaceful Kids: Practical Ways to Create a Calm and Happy Home. New York: Kensington Books, 2000.
  • Harris, Ian M. Peace Education. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.
  • Krieger, David and Frank Kelly. Waging Peace II: Vision and Hope for the 21st Century. Chicago: Noble Press, 1992.
  • Lantieri, Linda and Janet Patti. Waging Peace in Our Schools. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Women and Peace

  • Alonso, Harriet Hyman, et al., eds. Peace as a Women’s Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
  • Mananzan, Mary John, et al., eds. Women Resisting Violence: Spirituality for Life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996.
  • O’Gorman, Angie. The Universe Bends Toward Justice: A Reader on Christian Nonviolence in the U.S. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1990.