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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Viva la raza	Yolanda Alaniz	"A history of Chicana and Chicano militancy that explores the question of whether this social movement is a racial or a national struggle"--Provided by publisher.	OL11919062W
Roots of secession	William A. Link	"Scholars have long known that African Americans in the antebellum South vigorously resisted slaveholder control, but less has been known about how slave resistance shaped antebellum politics. Roots …	OL18293854W
We the Resistance	Leo Szilard,Vito Russo,Susan B. Anthony,Henry David Thoreau,Frederick Douglass,W. E. B. Du Bois,Dulce M. Garcia,Sojourner Truth,Chief Joseph,Thurgood Marshall,Helen Keller,Ida B. Wells-Barnett,Mary "Mother" Jones,Anita Hill,Angela Y. Davis,Amy Uyematsu,Edward Abbey,Jesse Jackson,June Jordan,Dolores Huerta,Bayard Rustin	A first-person history of nonviolent resistance in the U.S., from pre-Revolutionary America to the Trump years. While historical accounts of the United States typically focus on the nation's m…	OL19082232W
History teaches us to resist	Mary Frances Berry	"Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times." -- From Amazon summary.	OL19734869W
1968	Richard Vinen	"The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary--around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole stat…	OL19750131W
The faithful spy	John Hendrix	Tells the fascinating story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocke…	OL19752448W
Courageous teen resisters	Ann Byers	"Examines the stories of children and teen resisters in Europe during the Holocaust, including resistance groups, unarmed resistance, armed resistance in the ghettos and camps, and partisan units"--P…	OL1978646W
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler	Phillip M. Hoose	At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates …	OL20683403W
Consumption and Violence	Alexander Sedlmaier	Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by adv…	OL20930473W
Just revolution	Anna Floerke Scheid	Despite the U.S. Catholic Bishops' 1983 declaration that "insufficient analytical attention has been given to the moral issues of revoluationary warfare," theological scholarship has been slow to eng…	OL20974386W
No Is Not Enough	Naomi Klein	Journalist Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century.	OL21156050W
Crossing the line	Rosalie G. Riegle	More than sixty-five peacemakers have contributed oral narratives to this compelling history of those who say no to war making in the strongest way possible: by engaging in civil disobedience and pay…	OL22645288W
The power of God against the guns of government	Paul J. Vanderwood	"Writing in a narrative style reminiscent of Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, author explains a series of 1890s uprisings in Tomóchic, in the border state of Chihuahua, against the Porfir…	OL2707917W
Springtime	Clare Solomon,Tania Palmieri	ix, 279 p. : 20 cm	OL28781036W
Cesar Chavez, man of courage	Florence Meiman White	An easy-to-read biography of the Mexican American who organized the agricultural laborers' struggles for better pay and working conditions.	OL2956231W
From Bakunin to Lacan	Saul Newman	In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. …	OL2979645W
The May Pamphlet	Paul Goodman	The May Pamphlet is a collection of six anarchist essays written and published by Paul Goodman in 1945. Goodman discusses the problems of living in a society that represses individual instinct th…	OL3469465W
The Politics of Protest	Peter Joyce	"The British general election of 2001 was met with widespread apathy: less than sixty percent of the electorate bothered to vote. However, apathy towards conventional politics does not necessarily im…	OL571762W
The hot campus	G. Louis Heath	1973	OL6707648W
The logic of political violence	Craig Rosebraugh	>Within westernized societies, particularly the United States, there has been a near universal acceptance that nonviolent action has been the foundation on which the progress and/or success of politi…	OL8839535W