Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521805889
Subjects: Political activism; Sociology, Social Studies; Revolutions; Democratization; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - General; Sociology; General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Collective behavior; Social movements
First sentence: "On thinking of the events that have happened since the beginning of the week," confided Parisian bookseller Simeon-Prosper Hardy to his journal on July 17, 1789, "it is hard to recover from one's astonishment" (BN Fr 6687 [Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Fonds Francais, no. 6687]).