Recovering nonviolent history
Subtitle: civil resistance in liberation struggles
By: edited by Maciej J. Bartkowski
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781588268709; 9781588268952
Subjects: Nonviolence; National liberation movements; Civil disobedience; Resistance to Government
Description: 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. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.