Challenging Authority: The Historical Study Of Contentious Politics (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) - Hardcover

Hanagan, Michael P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816631085 ISBN 13: 9780816631087

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Synopsis

With any formal government, there is political contention - an interaction between ruler and subjects involving compliance or resistance, co-operation, resignation, condescension and resentment. This work examines the interaction between these forces at the very heart of contentious politics.

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About the Author

Michael Hanagan has taught at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities and has long experience in teaching undergraduate history. He currently teaches courses in world history, global history and international studies at Vassar College. He is the author of several books, including The Logic of Solidarity and Nascent Proletarians. He has edited a number of collections. Most recently he edited (with Chris Tilly) Contention and Trust in Cities and States. He is also finishing a manuscript with Miriam Cohen on the comparative history of the welfare state in England, France and the United States between 1870 and 1950. He served as senior editor for the journal International Labor and Working-Class History for four years, has been on the Consulting Board of Theory and Society for the last seven. He is currently a co-editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. He is currently working on an essay on world history for the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.

Wayne te Brake, Professor of History at Purchase College, State University of New York, is author of "Regents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch City" (1989), and coeditor of "Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics" (1998).

Leslie Page Moch is Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the author of books including The Pariahs of Yesterday: Breton Migrants in Paris and Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816631085
• ISBN 13: 9780816631087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320