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American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990

The Challenge of Peace

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Kyle Harvey

    1. Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Second Cold War

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 1-11

  3. Anti-Nuclear Coalitions: Pacifism, Radical Action, and a Rising Atomic Threat

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 12-41

  4. Building a Mainstream Movement: Advertising, Publicity, and Image

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 42-67

  5. Personal Politics: Radical Feminism, Difference, and Anti-Nuclear Activism

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 68-92

  6. Prayer or Protest? Fasting, Nonviolence, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1980s

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 93-116

  7. Activism in the Heartland: Local Identities, Community, and The Day After in Lawrence, Kansas

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 117-142

  8. Lifestyle Politics and Participatory Democracy: Communicating Peace across the United States on the Great Peace March

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 143-167

  9. Epilogue

    • Kyle Harvey
    Pages 168-169

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 170-221
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About this book

Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia

    Kyle Harvey

About the author

Kyle Harvey is based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was the 2013 C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.

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