This is a reprint of a classic work that tells the intriguing story of the four short line railroads that operated in the Merced River canyon to serve Yosemite National Park. Originally published in 1963, the volume offers a wealth of photographic material, including over 200 black and white images of trains, tracks, stations, and related ...
This is a comprehensive, well-illustrated history of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, the result of a multi-year research project. The informative work provides in-depth treatment of important historical figures, including hotelkeepers, guardians, trail and road builders, and commissioners, plus extensive coverage of hotels and ...
Cultural changes over the past two decades have led to a proliferation of new social movements in Europe and the United States. New social movements such as ecology, peace, ethnicity, New Age philosophies, alternative medicine, and gender and sexual identity are among those that are emerging to challenge traditional categories in social movement ...
Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing ...
A full-length analysis of social movements from a cultural perspective. This work considers the different approaches to culture, how movements are affected by their cultural environment and internal cultures within the movements themselves.
The two current trends of democratization and deepening economic liberalization have made Latin American countries a ground for massive defensive mobilization campaigns and have created new sites of popular struggle. In this edited volume on Latin American social movements, original chapters are combined with peer-reviewed articles from the well ...
It is now widely recognized that cultural factors are central elements in shaping the trajectories, tactics, organizational forms, recruitment, and ideologies of social movements. This volume brings together cutting-edge research on cultural themes such as narratives, frames, speech acts, and subcultural networks, as well as introducing innovative ...
This collection of articles chronicles a variety of visits to Yosemite before the advent of modern transportation. The authors describe their adventures in getting to the park on foot, on horseback, by horse stage, by bicycle, in the first horseless carriage, and by other forms of conveyance. Extracted from historic record, the accounts are ...
Pictorial account of the glory days of flume in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from the beginnings of the California Lumber Co. to its end in the 1942. Historical photos throughout capture the time and impact of this railway. Hard cover
Frames of Protest is the only book available that brings together empirical research and theoretical essays by sociologists, political scientists, and media specialists that focus on social movement frames and framing practices. The major themes of the framing perspective are treated: evidence for the determining influence of collective action ...
The two current trends of democratization and deepening economic liberalization have made Latin American countries a ground for massive defensive mobilization campaigns and have created new sites of popular struggle. In this edited volume on Latin American social movements, original chapters are combined with peer-reviewed articles from the well ...
A full-length analysis of social movements from a cultural perspective. This work considers the different approaches to culture, how movements are affected by their cultural environment and internal cultures within the movements themselves.
This work brings together theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from 19th-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the "battle ...
Recent events have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics. With case studies that range from Germany to Guatemala, the authors take up topics as varied as the dynamic interactions between protesters and policing agents, distinctions between "hard" and "soft" repression, the impact of media on our ...
Recent events have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics. With case studies that range from Germany to Guatemala, the authors take up topics as varied as the dynamic interactions between protesters and policing agents, distinctions between "hard" and "soft" repression, the impact of media on our ...
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
