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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew S. Tompkins (Post-Doctoral Researcher / Lecturer, Post-Doctoral Researcher / Lecturer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / University of Sheffield)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.457kg ISBN: 9780198779056ISBN 10: 0198779054 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 07 July 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy: A Transnational History of Protest in the 1970s 2: Anti-Nuclear Fusion: Protesters, Motivations, and Traditions 3: 'Radioactivity Doesn't Stop at the Border - And Neither Do We!': Transnational Networks, Protest, and People 4: 'Power to the Bauer!': Local Protest in the Rural World 5: 'Peaceful but Offensive' Protest: Violence and Non-Violence in the Anti-Nuclear Movement 6: Legacies: Trajectories of Activism and Activists since the 1980s Conclusion BibliographyReviewsA significant contribution to the history of nuclear power during this pivotal decade, Better Active than Radioactive! is also a compelling model for how to think and do the transnational in a way that historicizes and complicates the approach itself. * Roxanne Panchasi, H-France * This book is particularly useful for specialists of post-war Europe as well as those in protest studies. At the same time, Tompkins work provides a fascinating look at the post-1968 development of French and German society that will be informative to a much wider audience. * Jared R. Donnelly (USAF), European History Quarterly, Vol. 47 * This very well-written and readable study deals with the motivations and practices of the protesters involved as they probed the national, social and cultural limits of their activities ... It is a vital contribution to our historical understanding of transnational activism, a phenomenon that is likely to grow as global challenges mount. * Michael Schüring, German History * This book will appeal to environmentalists, political scientists, historians, general readers, community colleges, undergraduates, and graduate students ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE * excellent depth and rigour of the study. Tompkins does exactly as he sets out to do: he places the focus squarely on the transnational connections between activists and activist groups, and in doing so he has made a valuable contribution not only to scholarship on the anti-nuclear movement, but also as an example of how comparative history should be undertaken. * Sinead McEneaney, Reviews in History * -This book will appeal to environmentalists, political scientists, historians, general readers, community colleges, undergraduates, and graduate students Highly recommended.---CHOICE Author InformationAndrew Tompkins received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2013 after previously studying in Paris, Berlin, Chicago, and Chapel Hill. He has also lived in Japan, Russia, Poland, and Sweden. Dr Tompkins has been associated with the Centre Marc Bloch, a Franco-German research institute, since 2010, and conducted post-doctoral research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with funds from the German Universities' Excellence Initiative from 2013-2016. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He divides his time between Berlin and Sheffield. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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