John Prebble - The Highland Clearances

Following the events of Culloden where a completely legitimate king and his family were denied the right to govern and their supporters ferociously butchered akin to the kind of brutality found in the Nazi Party, there was a ban on cultural dress and other things like banning of playing highland pipes. After Culloden the people were abandoned by their chiefs and were cleared from their land for farming. The people of the highlands of Scotland were in fact indigenous to North-western Europe; this was the start of a ferocious colonial power of the British Empire to exploit diverse peoples throughout the world. It was also detrimental to the British Empire, because the highlands boasted many positions and volunteers within the British Army, but were let down by the greed of their clan chiefs. 

Mary G. Deitz - Thomas Hobbes & Political Theory

Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher from England and born in the 16th century and his life coincided with the English Civil War which probably had a profound influence on his many writings. His basic argument is that people are innately selfish, which is an argument that stands the test of time. Hobbes also stated that people are violent in a natural sense, and without furiously upheld law people will continue to be violent. Basically his premise invokes the questions and arguments, at what cost will mankind burden upon them self in order to pillage every possible resource till there is nothing left? Selfishness will eventually destroy the world, and people will suffer from greed. At what cost will war be on the world, when there is a continued emphasis on racial and western European superiority over the many other nations that inhabit the world? War and pillaging resources only helps the rich who live in safety, and grossly damages the innocent working class who fight the wars or are on the receiving end of conflict. In this sense Hobbes could be viewed as somewhat as a peace activist.