Lee Yan Fong Library

Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present / Civil resistance & power politics Non-violent action from Gandhi to the present edited by Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xxi, 407 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / People power and protest : the literature on civil resistance in historical context / Gandhi and civil resistance in India, 1917-47 : key issues / US civil rights movement : power from below and above, 1945-70 / interplay of non-violent and violent action in Northern Ireland, 1967-72 / dialectics of empire : Soviet leaders and the challenge of civil resistance in East-Central Europe, 1968-91 / Civil resistance in Czechoslovakia : from Soviet invasion to 'Velvet Revolution', 1968-89 / Towards 'self-limiting revolution' : Poland, 1970-89 / Portugal : 'the Revolution of the Carnations', 1974-75 / Mass protests in the Iranian Revolution, 1977-79 / 'People power' in the Philippines, 1983-86 / Political mass mobilization against authoritarian rule : Pinochet's Chile, 1983-88 / interplay of non-violent and violent action in the movement against apartheid in South Africa, 1983-94 / intersection of ethnic nationalism and people power tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-91 / 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and beyond : echoes of Gandhi / Civil resistance and civil society : lessons from the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 / limits of prudence : civil resistance in Kosovo, 1990-98 / Civil society versus Slobodan Milošević : Serbia, 1991-2000 / Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' of 2003 : enforcing peaceful change / Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' of 2004 : the parad-xes of negotiation / moment of the monks : Burma, 2007 / Christina Fink -- century of civil resistance : some lessons and questions / Adam Roberts -- April Carter -- Judith M. Brown -- Doug McAdam -- Richard English -- Mark Kramer -- Kieran Williams -- Aleksander Smolar -- Kenneth Maxwell -- Ervand Abrahamian -- Amado Mendoza Jr. -- Carlos Huneeus -- Tom Lodge -- Mark R. Beissinger -- Merle Goldman -- Charles S. Maier -- Howard Clark -- Ivan Vejvoda -- Stephen Jones -- Andrew Wilson -- Timothy Garton Ash. The The The The The The The The A

ISBN: 0199552010 9780199552016

LCCN: 2009935904

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Government, Resistance to--Case studies.
Civil disobedience--Case studies.
Nonviolence--Case studies.

LC Class. No.: JC328.3 / C58 2009