First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Politics of Nonviolent Action
In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973.
Tre Binds værk, der beskriver og forklarer ikke-voldelige handlinger og aktioner. I bind I Power and Struggle undersøges den politiske magt og hvordan den opstår og hvordan den kan undermineres...
Civilian Quakers sought to provide for the freedman. A few Quaker women began working as nurses for the soldiers and then transferred their energies to providing relief and teaching school for free blacks. Throughout the period of ...
The book draws on a vast array of historical examples, including the U.S. civil rights movement, the Indonesian uprising against President Suharto, the French Huguenot resistance during World War II, and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers.
Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.
“Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activist Michael Nagler writes.
Understanding Nonviolence: Contours and Contexts is the first book to offer a comprehensive introduction to nonviolence in theory and practice.
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail.
Nonviolent Action and Social Change