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The updated and expanded third edition of Tilly's widely acclaimed book brings this analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent topics as the economic crisis and related protest actions around the globe while maintaining their attention to perennially important issues such as immigrants' rights, new media technologies, and the role of bloggers and Facebook in social movement activities. With new coverage of colonialism and its impact on movement formation as well as coverage and analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring, this new edition of Social Movements adds more historical depth while capturing a new cycle of contention today. New to the Third Edition Expanded discussion of the Facebook revolution-and the significance of new technologies for social movements Analysis of current struggles-including the Arab Spring and pro-democracy movements in Egypt and Tunisia, Arizona's pro- and anti-immigration movements, the Tea Party, and the movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street Expanded discussion of the way the emergence of capitalism affected the emergence of the social movement

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Social Movements, 1768 - 2012
• Author: Lesley J. Wood, Charles Tilly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9781612052373
• ISBN: 1612052371
• ID: 04838413
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 420 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 158 × 319 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. October 2012

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