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Revolution and Revolt: Political Writing for Political Action

PWR 1DM - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Murray, D.
Last Updated: 29-Mar-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1DM: Revolution and Revolt: Political Writing for Political Action

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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

Background/reference sources:

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research-based argument.

Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices.
2 vols., IC, also online.
Encyclopedia of activism and social justice.
3 vols., in SSRC
International encyclopedia of revolution and protest, 1500 to the present
8 vols., IC
Revolts, protests, demonstrations, and rebellions in American history.
3 vols., IC
Separatist movements: a global reference.
IC

Subject term: Political Participation

This is a list of items in English of recent works using the subject term "Political participation" in Searchworks. You can limit your results by TOPIC , or by adding country or "history"or by LANGUAGE on the left.

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  1. The ambivalent partisan [electronic resource] : how critical loyalty promotes democracy

    Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen. 2013

  2. Being Muslim and Working for Peace : Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Gujarat

    SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » DS432 .M84 S87 2013

  3. Change they can't believe in : the Tea Party and reactionary politics in America

    Christopher S. Parker, Matt A. Barreto. 2013

    » On order » (No call number)

Subject term: Student movements

This is a list of recent English language materials using the subject term "Student movements." You can limit your results by using TOPICS on the left, or by adding search words.

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  1. British student activism in the long sixties

    Caroline M. Hoefferle. 2013

    Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA631.82 .H64 2013

  2. The German student movement and the literary imagination : transnational memories of protest and dissent

    Susanne Rinner. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » PT772 .R54 2013

Suggested journals:

FIND FULL TEXT in Searchworks record for online access.

Suggested databases:

  • Academic Search Premier  - CHOOSE DATABASES to add Alternative Press Index, Left Index
  • The Nation Digital Archive, 1865 to current; great weekly news magazine, also in IC Display and SSRC
  • Online Archive of California - includes materials from our Special Collections and University Archives, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and UC Berkeley
  • Oral History Online- check under Historical Events
  • ProQuest Research Library - to add more databases by clicking on ALL in the upper left-hand corner,  to include Alt-Press Watch, PAIS (political science), Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Special Stanford Resources:

  • Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Library has Underground newspaper collection. 476 reels plus supplements, covers 1963-1989. Includes Berkeley Barb, 1965-1980. Also papers of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
  • Special Collections and University Archives: Good descriptions in database Online Archive of California, includes things like records of Stanford Against Conscription (SAC) – Students against the Draft, Occupy Movement ephemera collection, 2011-2012, Occupy Stanford collection, 2011

Other resources:

Student/scholar activism

Gender Politics