American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990

The Challenge of Peace
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-49251-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3018 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harvey, K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Medizinische Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Second Cold War 1. Anti-Nuclear Coalitions: Pacifism, Radical Action, and a Rising Atomic Threat 2. Building a Mainstream Movement: Advertising, Publicity, and Image 3. Personal Politics: Radical Feminism, Difference, and Anti-Nuclear Activism 4. Prayer or Protest? Fasting, Nonviolence, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1980s 5. Activism in the Heartland: Local Identities, Community, and 'The Day After,' in Lawrence, Kansas 6. Lifestyle Politics and Participatory Democracy: Communicating Peace across the United States on the Great Peace March Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Kyle Harvey is based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was the 2013 C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.