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  • Railroads of the Yosemite Valley

    by Hank Johnston ...
    Hank Johnston's Railroads of the Yosemite Valley chronicles the history of the rail lines that once brought visitors and commerce to one of America's most breathtaking landscapes. Focusing on the Yosemite Valley Railroad, which operated from 1905 to 1945, the book explores how this vital transportation link shaped tourism, industry, and daily life in the region.Johnston delves into the railroad's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Short Line To Paradise

    The Story Of The Yosemite Valley Railroad

    by Hank Johnston ...
    This book tells the story of a short-line railroad that allowed many visitors to explore Yosemite. From 1907 to 1945, it ran from Merced, California to the edge of the Yosemite Valley, ending at El Portal. Passengers could then stagecoach or later motor coach through the beautiful park, then rejoin the train and proceed home. It also hauled lumber, cement, miner's gear, and the U.S. mail. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is a Social Movement?

    by Hank Johnston ...
    Series series What is Sociology?
    Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society.What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movements ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe

    Media, Identity, and Parties

    Edited by Hank Johnston, Rory McVeigh, Ziad Munson ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    From Boogaloo Bois and Rassemblement National, to Nordic Resistance Movement and Forza Nuova, majoritarian ethnonational movements and extreme-right politics are growing in different national contexts and continue to challenge democratic norms around the globe.This collection brings together research by prominent senior scholars and up-and-coming junior researchers to present an up-to-date ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • States and Social Movements

    by Hank Johnston ...
    Series series Political Sociology
    Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This engaging and succinct treatment of protest-state interaction shows how the modern national state developed in tandem with social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand the state fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest.Today, social ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State

    Edited by Hank Johnston, Sheldon Zhang ...
    Although contemporary China is a repressive state, protests and demonstrations have increased almost tenfold between 2005 and 2015. This is an astounding statistic when one considers that Marxist-Leninist regimes of the past tolerated little or no public dissent. How can protests become so common in an autocratic state? What are the trends of repression and mobilization? This collection helps to ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Racialized Protest and the State

    Resistance and Repression in a Divided America

    Edited by Hank Johnston, Pamela Oliver ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States. The organizations, strategies, and challenges of the Black Lives movement, mainstream Black organizations, the Mexican-American Dreamer groups, immigrant-rights mobilizations, Arab-American resistance, and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State

    by Seraphim Seferiades ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    This volume of cutting-edge research comparatively analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim making. Hank Johnston and Seraphim Seferiades bring together internationally recognized experts in the field of protest studies and contentious politics to analyze the causes and trajectories of violence as a protest tactic. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Social Movements And Culture

    Edited by Hank Johnston ...
    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. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Culture, Social Movements, and Protest

    Edited by Hank Johnston ...
    This cutting-edge research volume advances the widely accepted perspective that cultural factors are central elements in shaping trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, protest strategies and ideologies of social movements. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural analysis to focus on narratives, frames, speech acts, subcultural networks, and new developments in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Movements, Nonviolent Resistance, and the State

    Edited by Hank Johnston ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements and nonviolent resistance. Bringing together a range of studies focusing on protest movements around the world, it explores the overlaps and divergences between the two research concentrations, considering the dimensions of nonviolent strategies in repressive states, the means of studying them, and conditions of success of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Frames of Protest

    Social Movements and the Framing Perspective

    by Hank Johnston, Robert D. Benford, Jorge Cadena-Roa, Lyndi Hewitt, Padraic Kenney, Jan Massens, Holly J. McCammon, Pamela E. Oliver, Cathy Schneider0, David A. Snow1, Stephen Valocchi2, Stefaan Walgrave3, David L. Westby4 ...
    Frames of Protest brings together important empirical research and theoretical essays by leading sociologists, political scientists, and media specialists that focus on social movement frames and framing practices. Frames are new ways of understanding political and social relations that emphasize injustice and the need for change. As such, they are crucial for the development of social movements ... Read more

    $49.39 USD