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The Stamp Act of 1765
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Dennis B. Fradin |
"Covers the Stamp Act of 1765 as a watershed event in U.S. history, influencing social, economic, and political policies that shaped the nation's future"--Provided by publisher. |
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Bleeding Kansas
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Sara Paretsky |
Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up,Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their anc… |
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The "establishment" responds
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Kathrin Fahlenbrach |
"Protest movements have been analyzed widely by several disciplines in recent decades,but the larger repercussions they caused in social institutions and international affairs have largely been negle… |
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Putting social movements in their place
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Doug McAdam |
"This book reports the results of a comparative study of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. The authors find the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects … |
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War & watermelon
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Rich Wallace |
As the summer of 1969 turns to fall in their New Jersey town, twelve-year-old Brody plays football in his first year at junior high while his older brother's protest of the war in Vietnam causes tens… |
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Save our squad, Gaby
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Jen Jones |
Although they are graduating, Gaby Fuller and her friends are shocked to learn that, due to budget cuts, the Greenview cheerleading squad will be disbanded, and they organize a protest to try and get… |
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Direct action, deliberation, and diffusion
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Lesley J. Wood |
"What are the micro-level interactions and conversations that underlie successful and failed diffusion? By comparing the spread of direct action tactics from the 1999 Global Justice Movement protests… |
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Volleyball dreams
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Jake Maddox |
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes t… |
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The (r)evolution of Evelyn Serrano
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Sonia Manzano |
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and th… |
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Organizing to change a city
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Kitty Kelly Epstein |
The book tells the story of a huge number of residents working to change their city. They recruited a progressive African-American to run for mayor, engaged 1000 people in task forces to make policy… |
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The difference between you and me
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Madeleine George |
School outsider Jesse, a lesbian, is having secret trysts with Emily, the popular student council vice president, but when they find themselves on opposite sides of a major issue and Jesse becomes mo… |
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On s'en câlisse
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Collectif de débrayage |
Qu’est-ce qui fait qu’un mouvement « prend » ? Voilà la question à laquelle le collectif de débrayage tente d’apporter des éléments de réponse, à partir du cas de figure de la grève étudiante au Québ… |
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CITY MADNESS
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Kia Soong Kua |
Hand and hand we engage, walk, run, smile, laugh, and even be appalled, when some of these characters are unclothed true to life, as they search for their place in this maze … |
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Occupy Anarchy!
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Infogruppe Bankrott |
Mit diesem Buch sind erstmals auf Deutsch ausgewählte Diskussionstexte der US-amerikanischen Occupy-Bewegung verfügbar.
Seit dem 17. September 2011 dominiert die Occupy-Bewegung die Schlagzeilen. … |
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American protest literature
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Zoe Trodd |
“I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke… |
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The age of acquiescence
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Steve Fraser |
"From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and politic… |
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The city always wins
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Omar Robert Hamilton |
Mariam and Khalil are deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahir Square during the Egyptian revolution. As regimes crumble and the country shatters into ideological extremes, their commitment to t… |
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Why I march
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Samantha Weiner,Emma Jacobs |
On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement aro… |
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Street Spirit
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Steve Crawshaw |
128 pages : 26 cm |
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Challenging authority
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Frances Fox Piven |
"What do the American Revolution, the abolitionist movement, the labor movement, and the Vietnam antiwar movement have in common? These are examples of the profound moments in American history when o… |
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