The Street as Stage: Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century

Author:   Matthias Reiss (Research Fellow, German Historical Institute London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199226788


Pages:   382
Publication Date:   21 June 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Public protest marches and meetings have become a global and transnational phenomenon. Images of Asian Muslims protesting against cartoons published by a Danish newspaper are aired into living rooms in Europe and America. Coordinated mass demonstrations on different continents voice demands to 'Make Poverty History' or to stop the war against Iraq, while the process of economic globalization has created an equally transnational network of critics.Given the worldwide adoption of Western-style street processions and meetings with their familiar symbols and rituals, it is easily forgotten that this form of organized public protest only developed in the nineteenth century and was long regarded with intense suspicion. Until well after the Second World War participating in street processions and meetings was viewed by the elites as a challenge to their predominant role, and the protestors were regarded as unrespectable or worse.This volume examines the evolution of the protest march and its subsequent adaptation and use by different groups, such as nationalists, the labour movements, suffragettes, Communists, fascists, and peace and civil rights activists in Europe and the United States.The case studies focus especially on the use of symbols, rituals, traditions, public spaces and symbolic places, the interaction between the marchers, the state, and the public, the use of the media and the question of violence, as well as the success and legacy of the marches. Three further essays introduce the reader to the most important figures, questions, and the methodology of protest march studies in social psychology, sociology, and geography.

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Author:   Matthias Reiss (Research Fellow, German Historical Institute London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.588kg
ISBN:  

9780199226788


ISBN 10:   0199226784
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   21 June 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Matthias Reiss: Introduction I. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Demonstration Marches 2: Stephen Reicher and Clifford Stott: Becoming the Subjects of History: An Outline of the Psychology of Crowds 3: David Gilbert: The Geographies of Protest Marches 4: Dieter Rucht: On the Sociology of Protest Marches II: The Long Nineteenth Century 5: Pia Nordblom: Resistance, Protest, and Demonstrations in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Hambach Festival of 1832 6: Hugh LeCaine Agnew: Demonstrating the Nation: Symbol, Ritual, and Political Protest in Bohemia, 1867-1875 7: Brigitta Bader-Zaar: 'With Banners Flying': A Comparative View of Women's Suffrage Demonstrations 1906-1914 III: Between the World Wars 8: Adam R. Seipp: An Immeasurable Sacrifice of Blood and Treasure: Demobilization, Reciprocity, and the Politics of the Streets in Munich and Manchester, 1917-21 9: Matthias Reiss: Marching on the Capital: National Protest Marches of the British Unemployed in the 1920s and 1930s 10: Sven Reichardt: Fascist Marches in Italy and Germany: Squadre and SA before the Seizure of Power IV: Marches in the City 11: Christian Koller: Demonstrating in Zurich between 1830 and 1940: From Bourgeois Protest to Proletarian Street Politics 12: Simon Hall: Marching on Washington: The Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements of the 1960s 13: Nikola D. Dimitrov: Streets of Anger: Opposition Protests in Belgrade and Sofia during the Winter Months of 1996-1997 14: Neil Jarman: Another Form of Troubles: Parades, Protests, and the Northern Ireland Peace Process V: New Models 15: Holger Nehring: Demonstrating for 'Peace' in the Cold War: The British and West German Easter Marches, 1958-1964 16: Fabian Virchow: 'Capturing the Streets': Marches as a Political Instrument of the Extreme Right in Contemporary Germany 17: Danielle Tartakowsky: Is the French Manif still Specific? Changes in French Street Demonstrations

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Editor Matthias Reiss deserves praise for organising superior translations of German-language originals, superb copy-editing, good maps, a helpful summary, bibliography and readable footnotes...On the whole the articles tell their stories compactly and well. Charles Tilly, English Historical Review, 00/08/08


Editor Matthias Reiss deserves praise for organising superior translations of German-language originals, superb copy-editing, good maps, a helpful summary, bibliography and readable footnotes...On the whole the articles tell their stories compactly and well. * Charles Tilly, English Historical Review, 00/08/08 *


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