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VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A Review of Current Literature

MAY CONTAIN MARKUP

Henry Bienen

FROM THE FOREWORD: “In the summer of 1967 the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs established a study group on violent politics and modernization. The purpose was to review and hopefully to deepen the present state of knowledge about the relationship between violence and rapid social change. As organized by Professor Manfred Halpern of Princeton University, a Fellow of the Institute, and Wayne Fredericks, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and now of the Ford Foundation, a group of distinguished social scientists met each month to consider papers on various aspects of modernization and violence….”

The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. 1968. 129p.