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Fighting for Peace
Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War—the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant …
How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism
An unexpected analysis of the battle between opposing activist movementsWhile gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, …
Liberation and Democratization
The first comprehensive comparison of two of the century’s most important liberation movements.Arising in the 1910s and emerging as legitimate governing bodies in the 1990s, the …
Repression And Mobilization
Brings together leading scholars from political science and sociology Recent events—from the collapse of Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe to the democratization of South Asian …
Globalization From Below
When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in …
Rhyming Hope and History
Rhyming Hope and History exposes the frayed relations between activism and social movement scholarship and examines the causes and consequences of this disconnect between theory …
Civil Resistance
In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant …
How Social Movements Matter
Provides original assessments of the consequences of social movements.We have all witnessed social movements and felt their effects-some subtle, others profound. But to truly …
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920sIn 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university …
Contested Citizenship
From international press coverage of the French government’s attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and the United States, questions of …
Waves of Protest
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras …
The World Says No to War
On February 15, 2003, the largest one-day protest in human history took place as millions of people in hundreds of cities marched in the streets, rallying against the imminent …