Paperback, 560 pages
English language
Published Dec. 28, 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan.
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This book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.
Subjects
- POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Warfare & Defence
- Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
- History - General History
- History
- Art
- Social History
- Modern - 20th Century
- Social Science / Sociology / General
- Peace