Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles

Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
ISBN-10
1588268950
ISBN-13
9781588268952
Category
Political Science
Pages
436
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Pub
Author
Maciej J. Bartkowski

Description

This unique book brings to light the little-known, but powerful roles that civil resistance has played in national liberation struggles throughout history. Ranging from the American Revolution to Kosovo in the 1990s, from Egypt under colonial rule to present-day West Papua and Palestine, the authors of Recovering Nonviolent History consider several key questions: What kinds of civilian-based nonviolent strategy and tactics have been used in liberation struggles? What accounts for their successes and failures? Not least, how did nonviolent resistance influence national identities and socioeconomic and political institutions both prior to and after liberation, and why has this history been so often ignored? The story that emerges is a compelling one of the agency of thousands and even millions of ordinary people as they used nonviolent force in the course of struggles against foreign subjugation.

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