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This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
By Engler, Mark & Paul Engler
- ISBN
- 9781568587332 9781568585147
- Publisher
- Nation: Perseus
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Reviewed on January 1, 2016 | Social Sciences
How do short-term uprisings become long-term movements? Why are some protests sensationalized while others are forgotten? Mark Engler (How To Rule the World) and Paul Engler (founding director, Ctr. for the Working Poor) answer these questions successfully while profiling the work of Gene Sharp, a theorist of nonviolent action. Although nonviolence was popularized by Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March (1930) and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birmingham Campaign (1963), the ideology dates to ancient Rome. The ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
