Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign AffairsAn Economist Book of the Year, 2014A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"e;One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989.

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign AffairsAn Economist Book of the Year, 2014A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"e;One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989.

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control.

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control.

Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011.

Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011.

The Religious Right came to prominence in the early 1980s, but it was born during the early Cold War.

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil.

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service.

Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles--most of them written especially for this volume--Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist social scientists have begun to reexamine women's involvement in social protest, the innovative forms this protest takes, and the impact of activism on women's lives.

The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history.

For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege.

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement.

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement.

Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression.

Lord Hugh Cecil, commenting in 1912 on the British Conservative party's staying power, said that the party's success was largely a matter of temperament, "e;recruited from.

Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this pathbreaking book examines not only written texts but also oral history interviews to establish a rich tradition of freedom that emerged from the movement.

There is currently a great deal of interest in the Southern suffrage movement, but until now historians have had no comprehensive history of the woman suffrage movement in the South, the region where suffragists had the hardest fight and the least success.

This fascinating study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson.

While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment enjoys vast and growing support in the United States.

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I.

Liberation theology originated in Catholic Latin America at the end of the 1960s in response to prevalent conditions of poverty and oppression.

In the generation that followed Frederick Douglass, no African American was more prominent, or more outspoken, than Ida B.

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves.

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves.

The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection.

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist?

This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument.

Local Business Voice provides the first scholarly and systematic history of the Chambers of Commerce from early historical origins in the eighteenth century up to the present date.

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move.

It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades.

The word 'anarchism' tends to conjure up images of aggressive protest against government, and - recently - of angry demonstrations against bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move.

This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument.

It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades.

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist?

In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions.

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

The rise of environmentalism has been one of the more remarkable developments in the politics of western societies in recent decades.

Social Movements and Networks examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action.

Social movements take shape in relation to the kind of state they face, while over time states are transformed by the movements that they both incorporate and resist.

In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of `critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice.

The word 'anarchism' tends to conjure up images of aggressive protest against government, and - recently - of angry demonstrations against bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in contemporary French history.

Vatican II profoundly changed the outlook and the message of the Catholic Church.

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010.

During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy.

This work provides an authoritative survey of America's long and turbulent history of rebellion, sedition, and treason against government authority and institutions.

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010.