UXL Protests, Riots, and Rebellions

UXL Protests, Riots, and Rebellions
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Publisher : UXL a Part of Gale a Cengage Company
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ISBN-10 : 1410339106
ISBN-13 : 9781410339102
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis UXL Protests, Riots, and Rebellions by : Tracey Vasil Biscontini

"This encyclopedia looks at a variety of protest events, both historic and contemporary, from around the globe. Articles describe protest events, provide historical context, reveal the motivations and methods of protesters, discuss media reaction and coverage as well as government response, outcomes, and impacts. Each chapter focuses on a different social issue, movement, or theme"--

Protests, Riots, and Rebellions

Protests, Riots, and Rebellions
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Publisher : UXL
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ISBN-10 : 1410339084
ISBN-13 : 9781410339089
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Synopsis Protests, Riots, and Rebellions by : Tracey Vasil Biscontini

"This encyclopedia looks at a variety of protest events, both historic and contemporary, from around the globe. Articles describe protest events, provide historical context, reveal the motivations and methods of protesters, discuss media reaction and coverage as well as government response, outcomes, and impacts. Each chapter focuses on a different social issue, movement, or theme"--

Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activists

Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activists
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Publisher : ABDO
Total Pages : 51
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ISBN-10 : 9781532176661
ISBN-13 : 153217666X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activists by : Duchess Harris

In the 1960s and 1970s, Dennis Banks and Russell Means helped lead the fight for Native civil rights. They organized protests and asked the US government to stop mistreating Native Americans. Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activistsexplores these activists' lives and their legacies. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History [3 volumes]

Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History [3 volumes]
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Publisher : ABC-CLIO
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ISBN-10 : 1598842218
ISBN-13 : 9781598842210
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History [3 volumes] by : Steven L. Danver

Contains essays that describe the causes, course, and consequences of twenty revolts, protests, demonstrations, and rebellions in American history, from Bacon's Rebellion in 1675 to the Philadelphia Nativist Riots of 1844, and includes subentries that provide more in-depth information on related people, places, events, and ideas

The 1967 American League Pennant Race

The 1967 American League Pennant Race
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781476672960
ISBN-13 : 1476672962
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The 1967 American League Pennant Race by : Cameron Bright

In 1967, in the midst of a nail-biting six-week pennant race, the Red Sox, Tigers, Twins and White Sox stood deadlocked atop the American League. Never before or since have four teams tied for the lead in baseball's final month. The stakes were high--there were no playoffs, the pennant winner went directly to the World Series. Here, for the first time, all four teams are treated as equals. The author describes their contrasting skill sets, leadership and temperament. The stress of such stiff and sustained competition was constant, and there were overt psychological and physical intimidations playing a major role throughout the season. The standings were volatile and so were emotions. The players and managers varied: some wilted or broke, others responded heroically.

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
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Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9781631498916
ISBN-13 : 1631498916
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by : Elizabeth Hinton

“Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” —Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors—and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions—explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds. Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California. The central lesson from these eruptions—that police violence invariably leads to community violence—continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.

Energy

Energy
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ISBN-10 : 1410390977
ISBN-13 : 9781410390974
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Energy by : Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

This book explains the fundamentals of energy science and the impact of energy on human life and the environment. Interdisciplinary in nature, it covers topics from such fields as geology, biology, physics, history, sociology, and economics.

Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780393242300
ISBN-13 : 0393242307
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature by : Robert Darnton

"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself incubated Diderot’s great Encyclopedie by hiding the banned project’s papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court trumped principle in the Old Regime. Shaken by the Sepoy uprising in 1857, the British Raj undertook a vast surveillance of every aspect of Indian life, including its literary output. Years later the outrage stirred by the British partition of Bengal led the Raj to put this knowledge to use. Seeking to suppress Indian publications that it deemed seditious, the British held hearings in which literary criticism led to prison sentences. Their efforts to meld imperial power and liberal principle fed a growing Indian opposition. In Communist East Germany, censorship was a component of the party program to engineer society. Behind the unmarked office doors of Ninety Clara-Zetkin Street in East Berlin, censors developed annual plans for literature in negotiation with high party officials and prominent writers. A system so pervasive that it lodged inside the authors’ heads as self-censorship, it left visible scars in the nation’s literature. By rooting censorship in the particulars of history, Darnton's revealing study enables us to think more clearly about efforts to control expression past and present.

Political Rebellion

Political Rebellion
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781317908098
ISBN-13 : 1317908090
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Political Rebellion by : Ted Robert Gurr

This volume comprises key essays by Ted Robert Gurr on the causes and consequences of organized political protest and rebellion, its outcomes and strategies for conflict management. From the Castro-inspired revolutionary movements of Latin America in the 1960s to Yugoslavia’s dissolution in ethnonational wars of the 1990s, and the popular revolts of the Arab Spring, millions of people have risked their lives by participating in protests and rebellions. Based on half a century of theorizing and social science research, this book brings together Gurr’s extensive knowledge and addresses the key questions surrounding this subject: - What grievances, hopes and hatreds motivated the protesters and rebels? - What did they gain that might have offset myriad deaths and devastation? - How effective are protest movements as alternatives to rebellions and terrorism? -What public and international responses lead away from violence and toward reforms? The essays in the volume are updated and are organized around the evolving themes of the author's research, including theoretical arguments, interpretations and references to the evidence developed in his empirical research and case studies. The concluding essays bring theory and evidence to bear on the past and future of political violence in Africa. This book will be of much interest to student of rebellion, political violence, conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Power in Numbers

Power in Numbers
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ISBN-10 : 0691611610
ISBN-13 : 9780691611617
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Synopsis Power in Numbers by : James DeNardo

This book explores the logic of struggle between radical movements and incumbent regimes, and develops a general theory of strategy in protests, uprisings, and rebellions. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.