Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience - Hardcover

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Civil Disobedience - Hardcover

Civil Disobedience - Hardcover

by Henry David Thoreau
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Book Overview

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is an essay by American author Henry David Thoreau and was first published in 1849 with the title of "Resistance to Civil Government". Thoreau sets for an argument that permit governments to rule or degrade their consciences, otherwise the government forces one to become an agent of injustice. Thoreau was motivated by his opposition to slavery and with the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
ISBN9781680920611
Author Henry David Thoreau
Publisher12th Media Services
GenreNews & politics, History, and Literature
FormatHardcover
PublishedApril 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages36
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. While living at Walden Pond, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

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