Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the GANDHI, MARTIN LUTHER KING, ETC list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 2: GANDHI, MARTIN LUTHER KING, etc These are writings by or about major figures in the history of nonviolence, such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Tolstoy; there is also material relating to their movements and their followers. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. A Guide to the Study of Gandhi - an Annotated Bibilography, Rex Ambler (Housmans / Gandhi Foundation, 1986), £1.00 Gandhi: A Study in Revolution, Geoffrey Ashe (Heinemann, 1968), hbk £10.00 Democracy on Dialysis - What Next?, Dr Arya Bhushan Bhardwaj (Lok Swaraj Manch Publications, Swaraj Nagar, India, 2003), £3.50 Gandhi and Non-Violence William Borman (State University of New York Press, 1986), pbk £8.50 Looks at some of the ancient origins of Gandhi's ideas. Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope, Judith M Brown (Yale University Press, 1998), pbk £15.95 - also available secondhand for £9.00 The definitive biography. Martin Luther King Jr - A Biography, Roger Bruns (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, USA, 2006), hbk £16.95 A Knock at Midnight: The Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr, (Eds) Clayborne Carson & Peter Holloran (Little, Brown and Company, 1999), £14.99 Gandhi and the Contemporary World, (Eds) Antony Copley and George Paxton (Indo-British Historical Society, Chennai, India, 1997), £7.50 Essays to mark the 125th anniversary of his birth. Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolent Power in Action, Dennis Dalton (Columbia University Press, New York, 2000), pbk £14.50 An intellectually satisfying analysis of the Gandhian concepts of satyagraha and swaraj, the book also deals with the trenchant criticisms of Gandhi's methods by his contemporaries. The Story of Bardoli, Mahadev Desai (Navajivan Pubishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 1957), £2.00 A history of the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 and its sequel - originally published in 1929. Handbook for Satyagrahis: A Manual for Volunteers of Total Revolution, Narayan Desai (Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, India / Movement for a New Society, Phildelphia, USA, 1980), pbk £12.00 Deals with Gandhian methods of struggle as developed by JP Narayan in his movement for Total Revolution, based on Gandhian satyagraha. Gandhi's Prisoner? - The Life of Gandhi's Son Manilal, Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie (Kwela Books, Cape Town, South Africa, 2004), hbk £20.00 Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence, Erik H Erikson (WW Norton, New York, 1993), pbk £7.99 The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer (HarperCollins, London, 1997), pbk £4.00 A reprint of the paperback of the book originally published in 1951, written by someone who knew Gandhi well. Long considered one of the best biographies of Gandhi. An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi (Penguin Classics, 2007), pbk £9.99 Although written in the 1920s, before some of the busiest and best-known periods of his life, this remains a key book for understanding Gandhi's philosophy. All Men are Brothers - Autobiographical reflections, Mohandas K Gandhi (Compiled and Edited by Krishna Kripalani) (Continuum, New York, 2005), pbk £8.99 A new edition of the collection first published by UNESCO in 1958. Delhi Diary (Prayer Speeches from 10-9-'47 to 30-1-'48), MK Gandhi (Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 1948), hbk £30.00 Surprisingly usefully indexed. However, the mixing of the text of some of his speeches, with third-person reports of them, can be confusing at first. The Bhagvadgita, MK Gandhi (Orient Paperbacks, Delhi, India, 2005), pbk £4.95 A sloka-by-sloka interpretation of the work. Hindu Dharma, MK Gandhi (Orient Paperbacks, New Delhi, India, 2005), pbk £3.95 A recent reprint of a selection of Gandhi's writings first published in this form in 1978. Gandhi Marg - Vol 4 Nos 2 & 3 (Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1982), £5.00 Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, his People and an Empire, Rajmohan Gandhi (Viking Penguin, New Delhi, India, 2006), hbk £25.00 This 700+ pages, by a practised biographer who is also Gandhi's grandson, deals with both the personal and political life of MK Gandhi. Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace, (Ed) V Geetha (Tara Publishing, Chennai, India, 2004), pbk £8.99 The collection, with pentiful explanatory notes by the editor, spans the whole of Gandhi's political life. The Origins of Nonviolence - Tolstoy and Gandhi in their Historical Settings, Martin Green (HarperCollins India, New Delhi, 1998), pbk £8.95 Non-Violence and Aggression - A Study of Gandhi's Moral Equivalent of War, HJN Horsburgh (Oxford University Press, 1968), hbk £10.00 Considers whether a Gandhian approach can allow us to renounce war, and to refuse to give in to injustice, simultanously - concluding that it is not only possible but essential. Gandhi's Johannesburg - Birthplace of Satyagraha, Eric Itzkin (Witwatersrand University Press, 2000), £16.99 Gandhi: A Spiritual Journey, MV Kamath (Indus Source Books, Mumbai, India, 2007), pbk £7.95 Loving Your Enemies, Letter from a Birmingham Jail and Declaration of Independence From the War in Vietnam, Martin Luther King (AJ Muste Memorial Institute, New York, USA), pmphlt £1.50 Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King Jr (Signet, New York, USA, 2000), pbk £3.00 King's classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights movement in the sixties, with an afterword written by Jesse Jackson. My Life, My Works - Remembering Mahatma Gandhi, (Ed) Sangeeta Kochlar (Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India, 2008), hbk £11.95 A selection of short extracts from Gandhi's writings, along with some contemporary photographs and cartoons, published to mark the 60th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination. Mahatma Gandhi: Apostle of Non-Violence, Coonoor Kripalani (Rupa, New Delhi, India, 2003), hbk £9.95 A biography by a student of the nationalist struggles in India and China. The Penguin Gandhi Reader, (Ed) Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Penguin Books, New Delhi, India, 1993), pbk £9.95 A representative selection of Gandhi's writings, focusing on themes which were central to his philosophy. Towards Fair and Free Elections, Jayaprakash Narajan et al (Lok Niti Parishad, New Delhi, India, 1970s), £3.00 Nonviolent Revolution in India, Geoffrey Ostergaard (Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, 1985), hbk £10.00 Tracing the intellectual origins of Gandhi's novel concept, and telling the story of the strategy after his death, including Jayaprakash Narayan's controversial new strategy of "Total Revolution" which led to the government's imposition of Emergency Rule in 1975. Free at Last: The Story of Martin Luther King, RJ Owen (Religious and Moral Education Press - Faith in Action series, 1997), pbk £4.50 The story told for children (but written in a way that only makes sense to children who've been told there's a "God" and still believe it). Sonja Schlesin - Gandhi's South African Secretary, George Paxton (Pax Books, 2006), £7.50 Killing the Dream, Gerald Posner (Little, Brown & Co, 1998), £11.99 When Harlem Nearly Killed King - the 1958 Stabbing of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Hugh Pearson (Seven Stories Press, New York, USA, 2002), £13.99 An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, William F Pepper (Verso, 2003), hbk £9.50 (reduced from £17.00) Mahatma Gandhi, HSL Polak, HN Brailsford and Lord Pethik-Lawrence (Odhams Press, London, 1949), hbk £9.00 Perhaps the first serious and sympathetic British-published biography of Gandhi after his assassination in 1948, one of the authors having worked closely with Gandhi in the latter's early years. Champaran and Gandhi - Planters, Peasants and Gandhian Politics, Jacques Pouchepadass (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, 1999), £13.99 How the indigo plantation economy culminated in the first experiment in Gandhian mass mobilisation. Mahatma Gandhi - The Man Who Became One With The Unverisal Being, Romain Rolland (Srishti Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2003), pbk £5.95 This contemporary analysis of Gandhi by a French philosopher was first published in 1924 in Britain. Tolstoy on the Causes of War, Ronald Sampson (Peace Pledge Union, 1992), pmphlt £3.00 The Agony of Arrival - Gandhi: The South Africa Years, Nagindas Sanghavi (Rupa & Co, New Delhi, India, 2006) hbk £19.95 Baba Amte and his work - A life of service, Laurence Speight (New River Publications, Northern Ireland, 1994), £2.50 Civil Disobedience and other essays, Henry David Thoreau (Dover Publications, New York, 1993), £1.25 A reprint of a nineteenth century classic. Walden, Henry David Thoreau (Oxford World's Classics, 1999), pbk £7.99 Gandhi - A Political and Spiritual Life, Kathryn Tidrick (IB Taurus & Co, 2006), hbk £19.50 A sympathetic but not uncritical portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out some of the contradictions in his stance. Government is Violence - Essays on Anarchism and Pacifism, Leo Tolstoy, Edited and introduced by David Stephens (Phoenix Press, London, 1990), pbk £7.95 A key collection, which still fills what is otherwise a major gap in available material by Tolstoy. Includes brief but useful notes, and a list of further reading. Letter to a Hindu, Leo Tolstoy (Peace News, London, 1963), pmphlt £0.50 With an introduction by Anthony Weaver. This essay, written in 1908, was addressed to Tarakuatta Das, in response to the latter's policy of violent resistance to British rule in India; it was one of the writings of Tolstoy which influenced Gandhi. The Spiritual Perceptions of Mahatma Gandhi, Ravindra Varma (Rupa & Co, New Delhi, India, 2006), hbk £12.50 Liberation & Revolution: Gandhi's Challenge (War Resisters' International, 1969), £9.50 Proceedings of the WRI's 13th Triennial Conference, held in Gandhi's Centennial Year, in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA. Gandhi's Peace Army - The Shanti Sena and Unarmed Peacekeeping, Thomas Weber (Syracuse University Press, 1996), hbk £39.95 With a Foreward by Elise Boulding. On the Salt March - The Historiography of Gandhi's March to Dandi, Thomas Weber (HarperCollins, New Delhi, India, 2000), pbk £14.95 NOTE: HOUSMANS ALSO HAS OTHER GANDHI-RELATED ITEMS including... Greeting cards (a set of 8 assorted, with envelopes), £4.00; and Mousemats, £3.00. These are suplied by mail order on the same terms as books (see the Books page for details of our mail order service).