| Description |
24 cm xv, 544 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Movement to Power -- Ch. 1. Russia, 1905: The People Strike -- Ch. 2. India: Movement for Self-Rule -- Ch. 3. Poland: Power from Solidarity -- Pt. 2. Resistance to Terror -- Ch. 4. The Ruhrkampf, 1923: Resisting Invaders -- Ch. 5. Denmark, the Netherlands, the Rosenstrasse: Resisting the Nazis -- Ch. 6. El Salvador, 1944: Removing the General -- Ch. 7. Argentina and Chile: Resisting Repression -- Pt. 3. Campaigns for Rights -- Ch. 8. The American South: Campaign for Civil Rights -- Ch. 9. South Africa: Campaign against Apartheid -- Ch. 10. The Philippines: Restoring Democracy -- Ch. 11. The Intifada: Campaign for a Homeland -- Ch. 12. China, Eastern Europe, Mongolia: The Democratic Tide -- Pt. 4. Violence and Power -- Ch. 13. The Mythology of Violence -- Ch. 14. The New World of Power -- Conclusion: Victory without Violence |
| Summary |
"A Force More Powerful depicts how nonviolent sanctions - such as noncooperation, strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience - can separate brutal regimes from their means of control. It reveals the inside stories of how ordinary people took extraordinary action to end oppression - including the Danes' valiant resistance to the Nazis, Solidarity's defeat of Polish communism, and civic action in Chile to remove a military dictator - and how nonviolent power continues to change the world today, from Burma to the Balkans."-- Back cover |
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"Filled with portraits of compelling individuals - such as Mohandas Gandhi, Lech Walesa, the young African Americans who sparked the civil rights revolution, and the mothers of the disappeared in Argentina - this book is a companion to a new documentary television series [and a feature-length documentary of the same name now at film festivals world wide]. At a time when violent force is all too often chosen as the means of conflict, this book meets a crucial need - by showing how people can achieve freedom and justice without using violence."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Social justice |
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Ethnic relations |
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Nonviolence |
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Social conflict |
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Social action |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-533) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [507]-533) and index |
| Subject |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
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Nonviolence -- History -- 20th century.
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Social conflict -- History -- 20th century.
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Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Social justice -- History -- 20th century.
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Passive resistance -- History -- 20th century.
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Social ethics.
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Apartheid -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Passive resistance.
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Labor unions -- Poland.
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Human rights -- Chile -- History.
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Ethnic conflict.
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Government, Resistance to.
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Ethnic relations.
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Social conflict.
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Social justice.
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Social action.
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Nonviolence.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction
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| Author |
DuVall, Jack.
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| LC no. |
00040512 |
| ISBN |
0312240503 |
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0312228643 cloth |
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