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    Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of Social Activism » Read Now

    by Steven M. Buechler. 240 pgs.

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    ...Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analysing social movements in advanced capitalism that locates...
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    Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism » Read Now

    by David De Leon. 610 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The radicals and liberals of the 1960s expressed ideas that continue to both attract and repel people decades later. Nostalgia books relive the Woodstock festival and the protests; past Presidents Bush and Reagan remember the era with unease; and scholars skirmish over the meaning of the period...
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    East European Fault Lines: Dissent, Opposition, and Social Activism » Read Now

    by Janusz Bugajski, Maxine Pollack. 334 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Dissent, Opposition, and Social Activism Janusz Bugajski and Maxine Pollack...lines: dissent, opposition, and social activism / Janusz Bugajski and Maxine Pollack...3...
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    The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s » Read Now

    by Karin Aguilar-San Juan. 395 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...LIBERATION Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s...to policymakers and initiate advocacy programs for their own communities...codewords of the 1980s stressing...
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    Contesting Apartheid: U.S. Activism, 1960-1987 » Read Now

    by Donald R. Culverson. 177 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...human rights component of antiapartheid activism. Human rights groups, besides offering...the origins of Africanist human rights advocacy date to the late nineteenth...
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    Party Organization and Activism in the American South » Read Now

    by Robert P. Steed, John A. Clark, Lewis Bowman, Charles D. Hadley. 268 pgs.

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    ...Party Organization and Activism in the American South Party Organization and Activism in the American South Edited by Robert P...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Party...
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    Race and Politics: New Challenges and Responses for Black Activism » Read Now

    by James Jennings. 212 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    In this sequel to his widely read Race, Politics & Economic Development, Jennings provides an acute survey of racial politics, with practical discussions of programmes designed for black activism.
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    Something within: Religion in African-American Political Activism » Read Now

    by Fredrick C. Harris. 230 pgs.

    ...Frederick Harris wades into a perennially contentious debate: the degree to which religious experience is central to African American political involvement and success. For...
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    Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt » Read Now

    by Carrie Rosefsky Wickhman. 304 pgs.

    ...Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering...
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    Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism » Read Now

    by Patricia L. MacLachlan. 317 pgs.

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    Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection...
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    A New Era of Activism: Who Will Frame the Agenda: (Social and Consumer Activism), in The Futurist » Read Now

    by Rafael D. Pagan Jr. 5 pgs.

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    ...A new era of activism: who will frame the agenda: (social and consumer activism) by Rafael D. Pagan Jr. Society finds...crucial of these challenges is the globalization of...
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    E-Activism, in Alternatives Journal » Read Now

    by Mark Meisner. Multiple pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...e-Activism by MARK MEISNER Environmental...educate and agitate. And Web-based e-activism, like its flesh-world counterpart, ranges...to a politician. This point-and-click...
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    Women for a Change: A Grassroots Guide to Activism and Politics » Read Now

    by Thalia Zepatos, Elizabeth Kaufman. 280 pgs.

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    This is a handbook for women who want to increase their political involvement at any level. There are interviews with women who have already done so in this guide from 2 political veterans.
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    The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict » Read Now

    by Suzanne Staggenborg. 240 pgs.

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    In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win...
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    The Politics of Transformation: Local Activism in the Peace and Environmental Movements » Read Now

    by Betty H. Zisk. 260 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This book is a study of local grassroots activism in two major political areas, the peace and environmental movements, over a period of five years. Interviews with leaders of 166 different groups in five states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, California, and Oregon) are supplemented by...

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