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Civil disobedience : an American tradition /
The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, the justifications used to defend it, disagreements...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The drama of civil disobedience
- 2. A heritage of civilly disobedient acts
- 3. Slavery and disobedience
- 4. Conflicts of law in the age of reform
- 5. "Wild, unaccountable things" : civil disobedience and woman suffrage
- 6. Beyond submissiveness : from temperence crusade to sit-down strikes
- 7. Adapting a philosophy of nonviolence
- 8. The civil rights revolution
- 9. The sixties and the great tradition of social protest
- 10. The day of the demonstrations isn't over.