Thomas Weber teaches politics and peace studies at La Trobe University. He has been researching and writing on Gandhi''s life, thought and legacy for over twenty years. His publications include Gandhi''s Peace Army: The Shanti Sena and Unarmed Peacekeeping (1996) and On the Salt Marsh: The Historiography of Gandhi''s March to Dandi (1997).
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Gandhi influenced
3. Henry Polak and the setting up of Phoenix settlement
4. Hermann Kallenbach and the move to Tolstoy Farm
5. Maganlal Gandhi and the decision to leave Sabarmati
6. Jamnalal Bajaj and the move to Sevagram
7. The top of the hourglass: Gandhi influenced
8. Gandhi's influence
9. Arne Naess: the ecological movement finds depth
10. Johan Galtung: peace research moves beyond war
11. E. F. Schumacher: economics as if people mattered
12. Gene Sharp: nonviolent activism becomes a political method
13. The bottom of the hourglass: Gandhi's influence.
