Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace MovementA comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns—Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance—this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism. |
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... chapter 1 . I cannot forget to thank Doug Mitchell , my editor at University of Chicago Press , for his interest , advice , and class . It was a pleasure to work with him . Finally , many months of complete immersion in the detailed ...
... chapter 1 . I cannot forget to thank Doug Mitchell , my editor at University of Chicago Press , for his interest , advice , and class . It was a pleasure to work with him . Finally , many months of complete immersion in the detailed ...
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... Chapter 2 then explores the reasons why the United States became so deeply entangled in those hostilities . Chapter 3 describes the specific kind of warfare— " low- intensity warfare " —the United States promoted in Central America ...
... Chapter 2 then explores the reasons why the United States became so deeply entangled in those hostilities . Chapter 3 describes the specific kind of warfare— " low- intensity warfare " —the United States promoted in Central America ...
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The U.S. Central America Peace Movement Christian Smith. Chapter 1 The Sources of Central American Unrest Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce . Men who ...
The U.S. Central America Peace Movement Christian Smith. Chapter 1 The Sources of Central American Unrest Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce . Men who ...
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... chapter , therefore , answers the following question : Why did Central America erupt into such disruptive political and military violence in the 1970s and ' 80s . A HISTORICAL LEGACY Civil strife , political struggle , and military ...
... chapter , therefore , answers the following question : Why did Central America erupt into such disruptive political and military violence in the 1970s and ' 80s . A HISTORICAL LEGACY Civil strife , political struggle , and military ...
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... thousand , and left more than a million homeless . Ninety percent of the destroyed homes in the capital were in poor neighborhoods . In subsequent months , fifty thousand people migrated to Guatemala City , 122 CHAPTER ONE.
... thousand , and left more than a million homeless . Ninety percent of the destroyed homes in the capital were in poor neighborhoods . In subsequent months , fifty thousand people migrated to Guatemala City , 122 CHAPTER ONE.
Contents
part two The Movement Emerges | 57 |
Illustrations follow page 208 | 209 |
part three Maintaining the Struggle | 209 |
part four Assessing the Movement | 363 |
The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations | 387 |
Notes | 393 |
Bibliography | 419 |
Index | 453 |
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