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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958760903321

Autore

Gee Tim

Titolo

Counter power : making change happen / / Tim Gee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : World Changing, 2011

ISBN

1-78026-036-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

303.484

Soggetti

Social movements

Social movements - History

Social change

Social change - History

Power (Social sciences)

Power (Social sciences) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Book Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. How Counterpower helps movements win -- 2. How India won its independence -- 3. How governments respond to Counterpower -- 4. How the Vietnam War was stopped -- 5. How apartheid was ended in South Africa -- 6. How the vote was won in Britain -- 7. How movements resist corporate power -- 8. How the Edyptians overthrew their president -- 9. Conclusion: making change happen -- Index -- About New Internationalist -- Other World Changing titles.

Sommario/riassunto

Counterpower is the power to remove the power of the 'haves', and no major campaign has been successful without it.