Demonstrations & Protest Movements

In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin''s state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members a...

They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the T...

This book brings together an extraordinary wealth of experience and will be an eye-opener for many readers. It seeks to provide an introduction to...

Contesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave o...

In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government leased over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natu...

A seminal work on the power of nonviolent action, this classic book outlines, in a systematic way, the elements involved in successfully opposing m...

A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy.--Kirkus Re...

Charged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of disse...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...

In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely de...

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-...

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-...

The explosive tale of Peterloo, told `verbatim'' style through the voices of those who were there. More than 15 people died and 600 were severely w...

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aborigina...

The slogan Yes we can-in the form ¡Sí Se Puede!-doesn't originate with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. It goes back more than four decad...

A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnso...

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture-the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civi...

On a perfect summers day in August as a faint breeze cooled the heat of the noonday sun and gently lifted the flags to display their mottoes and e...

The Arab Spring uprisings were not about gender; these were uprisings demanding rights for all. Yet, they presented a rare opportunity for women to...

A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kongs revolution. Through the long, hot su...

Using the analogy of a devastating series of earthquakes, Davutolu provides a new theoretical approach, conceptualization, and methodology for unde...

What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an ...

'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston, GuardianThe magnifice...

Join Dr Vivien Newman, arm in arm, with some of the formidable women of the pre-First World War suffrage and anti-suffrage movements as, on the dec...

A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction BooklistMatt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power Bernie SandersA s...

From its explosion onto Dublin's streets in October 2014 the anti- water charges campaign has changed the face of politics in Ireland. As a result ...

On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Chr...

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to d...

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First ...

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

Polynesian Panthers records the Pacific rights and social activist movement in New Zealand, told by those who were there. Forming in 1971, the Poly...

In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured a...

In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan Yes, we can-in the form ¡Sí, Se Puede!-winning many labor victories, securin...

Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war...

The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administrations policy of supporting righ...

The people want ...: the first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters in 2011 revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy. But...

In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in...

My Story: Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - the thrilling story of the princess and suffragette. Born in Britain to Indian and Egyptia...

This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses ...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...

In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter the call for the abolition of the police became a central d...