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"Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more tha…
This book uses the 1998 commemoration of the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 as a springboard to explore the historic roots of modern disagreements over cultural heritage.
This book uses the 1998 commemoration of the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 as a springboard to explore the historic roots of modern disagreements over cultural heritage. "A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit …
This book uses the 1998 commemoration of the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 as a springboard to explore the historic roots of modern disagreements over cultural heritage.
How do the depth of democracy and the style of protest policing affect the level of collective violence? There is much disagreement amongst scholars as to what effect protest policing has on levels of collective violence. This book offers an innovative contribution to the litera…
This book shows how the style of protest policing and the depth of democracy, both of which function under the direction of the political economy, are crucial to the state's credentials as the monopoly supplier of legitimate violence. Topics discussed are the institution of poli…
"The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative, and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, and factories and universities were occupied. Before it was all over, children, ho…