Demonstrations & protest movements books

2336 books were found.

Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies

Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics...

Author: Professor Toyin Falola (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781580460521
Format: Paperback
$118.80

A study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict...  Read More >>

The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War

The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the...

Author: Andrew E. Hunt
ISBN: 9780814736357
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Extensive interview and primary-source research on the role of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in the American...  Read More >>

The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era

The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest...

Author: Joel P. Rhodes
ISBN: 9780275970550
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This is a comparative and interdisciplinary study of how radicals at local level, staged, displayed, and narrated...  Read More >>

Put Your Bodies Upon The Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s

Put Your Bodies Upon The Wheels: Student Revolt in the...

Author: Kenneth J. Heineman
ISBN: 9781566633512
Format: Hardback
$40.95

The causes, consequences, and follies of the sixties revolt.  Read More >>

An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866

An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July...

Author: James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
ISBN: 9780807125885
Format: Hardback
$81.71

In the summer of 1866 a race riot in New Orleans caused the death of 48 men, the vast majority of them black. This...  Read More >>

The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan

The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student...

Author: Teresa Wright
ISBN: 9780824824013
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Communist Party elites sealed the fate of China's student movement, but did ill-considered choices by student leaders...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Author: Alex Haley ,  Malcolm X
ISBN: 9780141185439
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical...  Read More >>

Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870-1927

Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban...

Author: Andrew Grant Wood
ISBN: 9780842028790
Format: Hardback
$159.95

Winner of the 1999 Michael C Meyer Manuscript Prize, this book examines the social protests of popular groups in...  Read More >>

Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History

Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan...

Author: Haripriya Rangan
ISBN: 9781859843055
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Rangan appraises the grassroots social resistance within its cultural context to scrutinize the myths surrounding...  Read More >>

Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History

Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan...

Author: Haripriya Rangan
ISBN: 9781859847831
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Rangan appraises the grassroots social resistance within its cultural context to scrutinize the myths surrounding...  Read More >>

Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

Author: Dennis Dalton
ISBN: 9780231122375
Format: Paperback
$71.28

This book moves from the birth of Gandhi's method of nonviolent resistance in South Africa to an in-depth analysis...  Read More >>

A Documented History of Gullah Jack Pritchard and the Denmark Vesey Slave Insurrection of 1822

A Documented History of Gullah Jack Pritchard and the...

Author: Lois A. Walker ,  Susan R. Silverman
ISBN: 9780773476622
Format: Hardback
$369.47

The Denmark Vesey slave revolt of 1822 was one of the biggest slave revolts ever planned. The plot was discovered...  Read More >>

Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools

Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the...

Author: Clarence Taylor
ISBN: 9780739102275
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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Protest And Popular Culture: Women In The American Labor Movement

Protest And Popular Culture: Women In The American Labor...

Author: Mary Triece
ISBN: 9780813368191
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Taliban Phenomenon

Taliban Phenomenon

Author: Kamal Matinuddin
ISBN: 9780195792744
Format: Paperback
$8.95

Kamal Matinuddin analyses the origin, aims and objectives of the Taliban movement, examining the reasons for their...  Read More >>

Politics Of Democratization In Korea, The: The Role of Civil Society

Politics Of Democratization In Korea, The: The Role...

Author: Sunhyuk Kim
ISBN: 9780822957362
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the Khudai Khidmatgar Movement

The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the Khudai...

Author: Mukulika Banerjee
ISBN: 9780852552735
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examines the rise in the inter-war years of a Gandhian influenced non-violent movement in the North West Frontier....  Read More >>

Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence

Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence

Author: Jack Tager
ISBN: 9781555534615
Format: Hardback
$132.00

This study examines more than 100 riots that took place in Boston between the early 1700s and the mid-1970s. It...  Read More >>

Five Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond

Five Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond

Author: Alexander Cockburn ,  Jeffrey St Clair
ISBN: 9781859847794
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A first hand account of the most intense popular uprising since the protests against the Vietnam War, exploring...  Read More >>

To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells

To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells...

Author: Linda O. McMurry (Professor of History, Professor of History, North Carolina State University)
ISBN: 9780195139273
Format: Paperback
$62.95

This is a biography of Ida B. Wells, one of the women in African American history -- a crusader for black civil...  Read More >>

Manna: For the Mandelstams for the Mandelas

Manna: For the Mandelstams for the Mandelas

Author: Helen Cixous ,  Helene Cixous
ISBN: 9780816621156
Format: Paperback
$44.95

In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela...  Read More >>

The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums

The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant...

Author: Marc J. Gilbert
ISBN: 9780275969097
Format: Hardback
$131.00

An examination of Vietnam War protests that occurred among Midwestern and Southern college students American high...  Read More >>

Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860

Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American...

Author: Richard Newman ,  Patrick Rael
ISBN: 9780415924436
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The editors examine the important and previously overlooked pamphleteering tradition and offer new insights into...  Read More >>

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