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Volume 11, No. 2: June 2006   [  download reviews as pdf]

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  • Van Cott, Donna Lee, 2005: From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
      Reviewed by Kevin Neuhouser ]
  • Banaszak, Lee Ann, (ed.), 2006: The U.S. Women’s Movement in Global Perspective, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
      Reviewed by Benita Roth ]
  • Purkayastha and Mangala Subramaniam (eds.), Bandana, 2004: The Power of Women’s Informal Networks: Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
      Reviewed by Dongxiao Liu ]
  • Olesen, Thomas, 2005: International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization, London and New York: Zed Books
      Reviewed by Gillian Murphy ]
  • Mackenzie, Chris, 2005: Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada, Vancouver, Toronto: UBC Press
      Reviewed by S. Laurel Weldon ]
  • Crowley, Gregory J., 2005: The Politics of Place: Contentious Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
      Reviewed by Brian J. Miller ]
  • Lichterman, Paul, 2005: Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press
      Reviewed by Kevin D. Dougherty ]
  • Tria Kerkvliet, Benedict J., 2005: The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy, Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press
      Reviewed by Lynn Horton ]
  • Schock, Kurt, 2005: Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press
      Reviewed by Jon Shefner ]

Volume 10, No. 3: October 2005   [  download reviews as pdf]

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Volume 10, No. 2: June 2005   [  download reviews as pdf]

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  • Polletta, Francesca, 2002: Freedom is an Endless Meeting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by Kenneth T. Andrews ]
  • Andrews, Kenneth T., 2004: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by Jack M. Bloom ]
  • Doyle, Aaron, 2003: Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
      Reviewed by Jennifer Earl ]
  • Wellman, Judith, 2004: The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention, Champaign: University of Illinois Press
      Reviewed by Holly McCammon ]
  • Doyle, Timothy, 2005: Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds: A Global Perspective, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
      Reviewed by Matthew Baggetta ]
  • Mitchell, Richard G., Jr, 2002: Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by Stephen C. Poulson ]
  • Trinh Vo, Linda, 2004: Mobilizing an Asian American Community, Philadelphia: Temple University Press
      Reviewed by Yan Li ]
  • Khagram, Sanjeev, 2004: Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
      Reviewed by Kevin Wehr ]
  • Hardiman, David, 2003: Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas, New York: Columbia University Press
      Reviewed by Lloyd I. Rudolph ]
  • Mason, T. David, 2004: Caught in the Crossfire: Revolution, Repression, and the Rational Peasant, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
      Reviewed by Norma Kriger ]
  • Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph, 2005: Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice, New York and London: Routledge
      Reviewed by Dawn Wiest ]
  • Osa, Maryjane, 2003: Solidarity and Contention: Networks of Polish Opposition, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
      Reviewed by J. Craig Jenkins ]

Volume 10, No. 1: February 2005   [  download reviews as pdf]

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  • Giugni, Marco, 2004: Social Protest and Policy Change: Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Comparative Historical Perspective, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
      Reviewed by Edwin Amenta ]
  • Goodwin, Jeff, James M. Jasper, (eds.), 2004: Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
      Reviewed by Hyojoung Kim ]
  • Maxwell, Carol J.C., 2002: Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation and Direct Action, New York: Cambridge University Press
      Reviewed by Myra Marx Ferree ]
  • Todd, Malcolm J., Gary Taylor, (eds.), 2003: Democracy and Participation: Popular Protest and New Social Movements, London: Merlin Press
      Reviewed by Florence Passy ]
  • Fantasia, Rick, Kim Voss, 2004: Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press
      Reviewed by Jody Knauss ]
  • Fishman, Robert M., 2004: Democracy’s Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press
      Reviewed by Gianpaolo Baiocchi ]
  • Roscigno, Vincent J., William F. Danaher, 2004: The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press
      Reviewed by Kraig Beyerlein ]
  • Rhomberg, Chris, 2004: The There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland, Berkeley: University of California Press
      Reviewed by Michael Schwartz ]
  • Cormier, Jeffrey, 2004: The Canadianization Movement: Emergence, Survival, and Success, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
      Reviewed by William K. Carroll ]
  • Frickel, Scott, 2004: Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
      Reviewed by Robert Futrell ]
  • Wiktorowicz, Quintan, 2004: Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
      Reviewed by Mansoor Moaddel ]
  • Pfeifer, Michael J., 2004: Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press
      Reviewed by Stewart E. Tolnay ]

Volume 9, No. 3: October 2004   

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Volume 9, No. 2: June 2004   

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Volume 9, No. 1: February 2004   

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Volume 8, No. 3: October 2003   

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  • Aminzade, Ronald R., Jack A. Goldstone, Doug McAdam, Elizabeth J. Perry, William H. Sewell, Jr., Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, 2001: Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press
      Reviewed by Robert D. Benford ]
  • Armstrong, Elizabeth A., 2002: Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by Kimberly B. Dugan ]
  • Eckstein, Susan Eva, and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley (eds.), 2003: Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America, New York/London: Routledge
      Reviewed by Ton Salman ]
  • Gupta, Dipak K., 2001: Path to Collective Madness: A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers
      Reviewed by David Schweingruber ]
  • Krishna, Anirudh, 2002: Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy, New York: Columbia University Press
      Reviewed by Michael Woolcock ]
  • Kurtz, Sharon, 2002: Workplace Justice: Organizing Multi-Identity Movements, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
      Reviewed by John Brueggemann ]
  • Muñoz, Rafael Durán, 2000: Contención y transgresión. Las movilizaciones sociales y el Estado en las transiciones española y portuguesa, Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
      Reviewed by David G. Ortiz ]
  • Peleg, Samuel, 2002: Zealotry and Vengeance: Quest of a Religious Identity Group­A Sociopolitical Account of the Rabin Assassination, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books
      Reviewed by Arye Naor ]
  • Wood, Richard L., 2002: Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by Darren Sherkat ]

Volume 8, No. 2: June 2003   

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  • Binder, Amy J., 2002: Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
      Reviewed by Suzanne Staggenborg ]
  • Bystydzienski, Jill M., and Steven P. Schacht, (eds.), 2001: Forging Radical Alliances across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium, New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
      Reviewed by N. Eugene Walls ]
  • Eley, Geoff, 2002: Forging Democracy. The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, Oxford: Oxford University Press
      Reviewed by Rafael Durán ]
  • Goodwin, Jeff, 2001: No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1993, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
      Reviewed by Anthony Orum ]
  • Jamison, Andrew, 2001: The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
      Reviewed by Mercedes Pardo ]
  • Kaplan, Jeffrey, and Heléne Lööw, (eds.), 2002: The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization, Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press
      Reviewed by Ross Haenfler ]
  • Khagram, Sanjeev, James V. Riker, and Kathryn Sikkink, (eds.), 2002: Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Movements, Networks, and Norms, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
      Reviewed by Beth Schaefer Caniglia ]
  • Koopmans, Ruud, and Paul Statham, (eds.), 2000: Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
      Reviewed by Richard Alba ]
  • Marx Ferree, Myra, William Anthony Gamson, Juergen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht, 2002: Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press
      Reviewed by Jo Reger ]
  • Sagan, Eli, 2001: Citizens and Cannibals The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
      Reviewed by Rosemary H. T. O¹Kane ]

Volume 7, No. 3: October 2002   

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Volume 7, No. 2: Summer 2002   

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Volume 7, No. 1: Spring 2002   

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Volume 6, No. 2: Fall 2001   

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Volume 6, No. 1: Spring 2001   

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  • Ayres, Jeffrey M., 1998: Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Movements and Popular Contention against North American Free Trade, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
      Reviewed by Nancy E. Wright ]
  • Costain, Anne N., and Andrew S. McFarland, eds., 1998: Social Movements and American Political Institutions: People, Passions and Power, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
      Reviewed by Margaret Groarke ]
  • Fox, Elaine, Jeffrey J. Kamakahi, and Stella M. Çapek, 1999: Come Lovely and Soothing Death: The Right To Die Movement in the United States, New York: Twayne Publishers
      Reviewed by Laura M. Carpenter ]
  • Kimeldorf, Howard, 1999: Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement, University of California Press
      Reviewed by Charlotte Ryan ]
  • Lynch, Cecilia, 1999: Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press
      Reviewed by Jeffrey W. Knopf ]
  • Ray, Raka, 1999: Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press
      Reviewed by Aseema Sinha ]
  • Rose, Fred, 2000: Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace and Environmental Movements, Ithaca: Cornell University Press
      Reviewed by Brian K. Obach ]

Volume 5, No. 1: Spring 2000   

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  • Daniels, Cynthia, and Rachelle Brooks, eds, 1997: Feminists Negotiate the State: The Politics of Domestic Violence, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America,
      Reviewed by Janet Gornick ]
  • Dobratz, Betty A., and Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile, 1997: White Power, White Pride: The White Separatist Movement in the United States, New York: Twayne Publishers
      Reviewed by Mary Bernstein ]
  • Giugni, Marco, Doug McAdam, Charles Tilly, eds, 1999: How Social Movements Matter, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press
      Reviewed by Leslie Bunnage ]
  • Keck, Mary Margaret E. , and Kathryn Sikkink, 1998: Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press
      Reviewed by Alexandra Dobrowolsky ]
  • Klandermans, Bert, 1997: The Social Psychology of Protest, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers
      Reviewed by William Hoynes ]
  • Smith, Jackie, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco, eds, 1997: Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press
      Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Ayres ]

Volume 5, No. 2: Fall 2001   

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Volume 4, No. 2: Fall 1999   

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Volume 4, No. 1: April 1999   

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  • Amenta, Edwin, 1998: Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy, Princeton University Press
      Reviewed by Frances Fox Piven ]
  • Breyman, Steve, 1998: Movement Genesis: Social Movement Theory and the 1980s West German Peace Movement, Boulder, CO: Westview Press
      Reviewed by Alice H. Cooper ]
  • Clemens, Elisabeth S., 1997: The People¹s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by John D. McCarthy ]
  • Downton, James, Jr. and Paul Wehr, 1997: The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives, Boulder, CO: Westview Press
      Reviewed by Kurt Schock ]
  • Farrell, James J., 1997: The Spirit of the Sixties: the Making of Postwar Radicalism, New York: Routledge
      Reviewed by Kelly Moore ]
  • Hunter Graham, Sara, 1996: Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
      Reviewed by Susan E. Marshall ]
  • Jacob, Jeffrey, 1997: New Pioneers: The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press
      Reviewed by Deborah B. Balser ]
  • Kaplan, Laura, 1995: The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
      Reviewed by Nancy Whittier ]
  • Robnett, Belinda, 1997: How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press
      Reviewed by Francesca Polletta ]
  • Walsh, Edward J., Rex Warland, and D. Clayton Smith, 1997: Don¹t Burn It Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Reviewed by Kent E. Portney ]

Volume 3, No. 2: October 1998   

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Volume 3, No. 1: March 1998   

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Volume 2, No. 2: September 1997   

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