A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem

Reviews over two dozen coercion-based practices, including human sacrifice, genocide, war, terrorism, revolution, political murder, riots, homicide, imprisonment, capital punishment, torture, religious persecution, slavery, debt bondage, and taxation. Examples and data are drawn from all over the world, including ancient Rome, medieval Japan, early modern England, revolutionary Russia, and four centuries of American history. Payne concludes that the long-run tendency in societies is for the use of force to decline.James L. Payne is the author of 'A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem', published 2004 under ISBN 9780915728176 and ISBN 0915728176.