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America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001

written by Richard M. Abrams, 1932- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006, originally published 2006), 367 page(s)

This 2006 book examines the period 1941–2001 during which time the character of American life changed rapidly, culminating in the shattering of the liberal Democratic coalition. Revolutions in the areas of affluence, foreign policy, the military, business systems, racial relations, gender roles, sexual behavior...

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Cambridge Latin American Studies, 27, A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement 1848–1971

written by Guillermo Lora, 1922-2009, in Cambridge Latin American Studies, 27 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008, originally published 1977), 422 page(s)

This book is an abridgement and translation of Guillermo Lora's five-volume history. It deals with the strengthening and radicalisation of Bolivia's organised labour movement, which culminated in the drastic revolutionary changes of the 1950s.

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7. Resilience

written by Jeremy M. Weinstein, fl. 2006; in Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006, originally published 2006), 260-298

This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war, explaining why patterns of insurgent violence vary so much across conflicts. It does so by examining the membership, structure, and behavior of four insurgent movements in Uganda, Mozambique, and Peru.

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

written by Maria Victoria Murillo, fl. 1997; edited by Margaret Levi, fl. 2001 and Peter Lange, fl. 2001, in Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 2001), 271 page(s)

Due to economic crises, labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s, such as trade liberalization and privatization. This book explains why labor unions resisted on some occasions, and submitted on others, and the consequences of their actions by studying three countries: Argen...

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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism

written by Clifford Bob, 1958-, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 255 page(s)

How do a few Third World political movements become global causes célèbres, while most remain isolated? This book rejects dominant views that needy groups readily gain help from selfless nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Instead, they face a Darwinian struggle for scarce resources where support goes to the s...

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Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, The New Transnational Activism

written by Sidney Tarrow, fl. 2005, in Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 278 page(s)

The New Transnational Activism, first published in 2005, shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space. This means that we cannot be satisfied with defining transnational activists through the w...

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[Front matter]

written by John Borneman, 1952-; edited by Jonathan Parry, fl. 2006, Michael Herzfeld, 1947-, Stephen Gudeman, fl. 1992, Jack Goody, 1919-2015 and Ernest Gellner, 1925-1995; in Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation, Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995, originally published 1992)

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Economy and ideology

written by Tomas Hammar, 1928-; edited by Tomas Hammar, 1928-; in European Immigration Policy: A Comparative Study, Comparative ethnic and race relations (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, originally published 1985)

This book, first published in 1985, presents a comprehensive analysis of immigration policy in Europe. Six representative countries are looked at in detail: Sweden, Holland, Britain, France, West Germany and Switzerland. All have experienced large-scale postwar immigration and exemplify different policy responses.

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2 Good Times and Bad: Trends in the Economic, Social, and Political Conditions of African Americans in the Post–Civil Rights Era

written by Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, fl. 2003, Frederick C. Harris, 1963- and Brian D. McKenzie, fl. 2002; in Countervailing Forces in African-American Civil Activism, 1973-1994 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 27-52

The changes in black activism since the civil rights movement can be characterized by a tug-of-war between black political power on one side and economic conditions in black communities on the other according to this study. As blacks gain greater access and influence within the political system, black participatio...

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6 The dynamics of conflict: the economy

written by Joseph Ruane, fl. 1996 and Jennifer Todd, fl. 1996; in The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, originally published 1996), 150-177

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