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Protest! : how people have come together to change the world
Publication Information
London : Pavilion Books Company Limited, 2021.
Physical Description
168 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
A history of peaceful protests from around the world - from a workers' strike in 1170 BCE to school strikers in the present day. When ordinary people have stood up for what they believe in, they have used protest to change the planet and make the world a better place.
Contents
- Ancient world
- Medieval troublemakers
- Unsettling the settlers
- Class war
- Rights for women
- Independence and resistance
- Freedom and civil rights
- Wild ones
- People power revolutions
- Acting up, speaking out
- Global uprising
- New grassroots.
Subjects
- Protest movements > History > Juvenile literature.
- Political participation > History > Juvenile literature.
- Social movements > History > Juvenile literature.
- Insurgency > History > Juvenile literature.
- Government, Resistance to > Juvenile literature.
- Social action > Juvenile literature.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Insurgency.
- Political participation.
- Protest movements.
- Social action.
- Social movements.