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Author Tompkins, Andrew S., author.

Title Better active than radioactive! : anti-nuclear protest in 1970s France and West Germany / Andrew S. Tompkins
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford Historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents Cover; Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Note on Spelling and Translations; 1: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy: A Transnational History of Protest in the 1970s; TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL HISTORY; SITUATING ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTEST IN TIME AND SPACE; PROTEST IN HISTORICAL DEBATE; 2: Anti-Nuclear Fusion: Protesters, Motivations, and Traditions; LOCAL PROTESTERS; OUTSIDERS; FLUID BOUNDARIES
3: 'Radioactivity Doesn't Stop at the Border-and Neither Do We!' Transnational Networks, Protest, and PeopleA GLOBAL NETWORK OF LOCAL STRUGGLES; PATTERNS OF TRANSNATIONAL PROTEST; BORDER CROSSERS; CONCLUSION; 4: 'Power to the Bauer! 'Local Protest in the Rural World; IMAGINING THE RURAL AND THE LOCAL IN THE 1970S; INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TOWN AND COUNTRY; RURAL SPACE AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF PROTEST; CONCLUSION; 5: 'Peaceful but Offensive' Protest: Violence and Non-Violence in the Anti-Nuclear Movement; THE DEBATE; ESCALATING (NON- )VIOLENCE; BEYOND DEMONSTRATIONS; LIVING WITH CONTRADICTION
CONCLUSION6: Legacies: Trajectories of Activism and Activists since the 1980s; CHANGING THE WORLD; CHANGING THEMSELVES; CONCLUSION; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; Principal Archive Collections; Activist Press; Interviews; Published Interview Material; Audiovisual Material; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index
Summary During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy. This volume uses a mix of oral and archival history to explore how citizens from disparate walks of life in France and West Germany united to oppose nuclear power, transcending national borders and political and social differences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2016)
Subject Antinuclear movement -- France -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Antinuclear movement
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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