This Is an Uprising
How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
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About This Is an Uprising
This is an Uprising traces the evolution of civil resistance, providing new insights into the contributions of early experimenters such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., groundbreaking theorists such as Gene Sharp and Frances Fox Piven, and contemporary practitioners who have toppled repressive regimes in countries such as South Africa, Serbia, and Egypt. Drawing from discussions with activists now working to defend human rights, challenge corporate corruption, and combat climate change, the Englers show how people with few resources and little influence in conventional politics can nevertheless engineer momentous upheavals. Although it continues to prove its importance in political life, the strategic use of nonviolent action is poorly understood. Nonviolence is usually studied as a philosophy or moral code, rather than as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. This is an Uprising corrects this oversight.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
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- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 9.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Standard-length read
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- Readers seeking books like the anarchist cookbook
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This Is an Uprising by Mark Engler and Paul Engler, published in 2016, is a 370-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Books Like The Anarchist Cookbook.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-1-568-58733-2
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 370
