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Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement

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Availability:In StockContributor:Christian SmithPublish date:1996-06-15Pages:484
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226763361ISBN-10:226763366UPC:9780226763361Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.03 x 6.06 x 1.05 inchesWeight:1.4418Product ID:SCWPGJKRH2
A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns--Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance--this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226763361ISBN-10:226763366UPC:9780226763361Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.03 x 6.06 x 1.05 inchesWeight:1.4418Product ID:SCWPGJKRH2
Smith, Christian: - Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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