Roger Powers S

Protest, Power, and Change (eBook, ePUB)

An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage
Redaktion: Powers, Roger S.; Vogele, William B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Solidarity's passive/aggressive faceoff with communism to the courageous sit-ins and marches of the Civil Rights Movement, here is the first systematic survey of peaceful confrontations between the forces for the status quo and the forces for change. All the important events, tactics, and leaders are covered: Women's suffrage, blockades, IRA hunger strikes, monkey wrenching, Charter 77, the Clamshell Alliance, Rosa Parks, Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, and many more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136764820
• Artikelnr.: 38273360

Autorenporträt

Roger S. Powers is a researcher, writer, and lecturer on aspects of nonviolent struggle, peacemaking, and conflict resolution. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and an M.A. in international politics from the University of Denver. William B.Vogele is a research associate with the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs. He is the author of numerous publications on nonviolent struggle and international affairs, including Stepping Back: Nuclear Arms Control and the End of the Cold War.

Inhaltsangabe

A sampling of the coverage Campaigns, events, locations Catonsville Nine, l968
DesaparecidosMovement in Latin America
Gay Rights Movement
Nazism, Civil Resistance, l939-l945
Salt March (India) l930 Methods of Nonviolent Action Disrobing, Protest
Guerrilla Theater
Lightning Strike
Reverse Trial
Withdrawal, Symbolic Organizations Greenpeace
Indian National Congress
Plowshares Movement
Queer Nation People Aung San Suu Kyi
Clausewitz, Carl von
Day, Dorothy
Douglass, Frederick
Havel, Vaclav Related Topics Conflict Theories
Everyday Forms of Resistance
Feminism
Transarmament