The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch Usamerican Social Movements

By Jules Boykoff

Book Overview

Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415978106
• ISBN13: 9780415978101
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"