Demonstrations & protest movements books

The major concerns are the components of group and movement successes, both short-run and long-run, and activist...  Read More >>

Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of...  Read More >>

Nonfiction. MIDNIGHT OIL is a political journey through two decades of social struggles, ranging from the oil fields...  Read More >>

Examines the ideological depiction of the masses from the French Revolution to the democratization of Eastern Europe,...  Read More >>

Manzo examines, by means of historical analysis, the effects of global power relationships on the politics of South...  Read More >>

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This work offers an introduction to the best-known antiwar movement in United States history, written by veterans...  Read More >>

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Provides an overview of the history, philosophy, theory and practice of social group work and action in the promotion...  Read More >>

Examines the social regulation of women through law during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the resistance...  Read More >>

Essays discuss social science, Germany, literary magazines, television commercials, education, nuclear war, conservatism,...  Read More >>

This study analyzes instances of everyday resistance in South Asian history and society. Several of the essays use...  Read More >>

Presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences....  Read More >>

An exploration of the the FBI's five COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Programme) operations, which directed its efforts...  Read More >>

Presents the texts of the letters, speeches, sermons, student papers, and articles of Martin Luther King, Jr. This...  Read More >>

Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications...  Read More >>

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Long before the dramatic events of 1989, Shanghai students had been at the center of many similar mass movements...  Read More >>

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Towards the end of the 1830s, British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter to improve their...  Read More >>

The book also chronicles the achievements, problems, events and political controversies that led up to the Tiananmen...  Read More >>

In mid-1989, four years of crisis in China erupted into violence on the streets of Beijing and other major cities....  Read More >>

This collection of essays addresses the evolving process of politics and violence in the rural populations of the...  Read More >>

A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system....  Read More >>