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Patricia Parkman

Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America, 1931-1961 (1990)

Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America, 1931-1961 (1990) by Patricia Parkman

Introduction

One of the characteristic features of the Latin American political land- scape is a phenomenon best described as a civic strike: the collective suspension of normal activities by people of diverse social groups united by a common political objecti...

Gene Sharp

How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013)

How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013) by Gene Sharp

PREFACE

This small book offers the principal contents of the 902 pages of the original 1973 The Politics of Nonviolent Action to anyone who wants to learn the substance of how nonviolent struggle works.(1) That is, how the nonviolent technique can operate in conflicts, even when strong opponen...

Gene Sharp

Self Liberation - A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (2009)

Self Liberation - A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (2009) by Gene Sharp

Which way to liberation?

Many people live in countries with governments that can be identified as dictatorships, or less harshly, authoritarian regimes. Usually, most of the people in those countries would like their oppres...

Bruce Jenkins & Gene Sharp

The Anti-Coup (2004)

The Anti-Coup (2004) by Bruce Jenkins & Gene Sharp

From the Introduction

Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent decades. Coups have overthrown established constitutional dem...

Walter H. Conser, Jr & Ronald M. McCarthy & David J. Toscano & Gene Sharp

Before Lexington - Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775 (2015)

Before Lexington - Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775 (2015) by Walter H. Conser, Jr & Ronald M. McCarthy & David J. Toscano & Gene Sharp

PREFACE TO THE 1986 EDITION

The struggle for American independence has captured the attention of American historians since the beginning of our history as a nation. S...