Sharon Erickson Nepstad

Nonviolent Revolutions

Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad analyzes civilian insurrections in China, East Germany, Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780199778218
• ISBN-10: 0199778213
• Artikelnr.: 33371929

Autorenporträt

Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity Movement (Oxford, 2004) and Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (Cambridge, 2008), which won the 2009 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Nonviolent Power and Revolutionary Change
PART I: Nonviolent Uprisings Against Socialist Regimes
Chapter 2 The Tiananmen Tragedy and the Failed Chinese Uprising
Chapter 3 The Collapse of the East German State
PART II: Nonviolent Uprisings Against Military Regimes
Chapter 4 Panama's Struggle for Democracy
Chapter 5 Ousting Chile's General Pinochet
PART III: Nonviolent Uprisings Against Personal Dictatorships
Chapter 6 Kenyan Resistance to Daniel Arap Moi
Chapter 7 The Philippines' "Bloodless Revolution"
Chapter 8 Conclusion: How Civil Resistance Works
References