The Street As Stage - Protest Marches and Public Rallies Since the Nineteenth Century

Zusatztext Editor Matthias Reiss deserves praise for organising superior translations of German-language originals, superb copy-editing, good maps, a helpful summary, bibliography and readable footnotes...On the whole the articles tell their stories compactly and well. Klappentext This volume examines the evolution of the protest march in the nineteenth century and its subsequent adaptation and use by different groups in different countries. It focuses on the use of symbols, rituals, traditions, spaces, and place, as well as on the interaction between the marchers, the public, and the authorities. Zusammenfassung This volume examines the evolution of the protest march in the nineteenth century and its subsequent adaptation and use by different groups in different countries. It focuses on the use of symbols, rituals, traditions, spaces, and place, as well as on the interaction between the marchers, the public, and the authorities.

Product details

• Authors: Matthias (EDT) Reiss
• Assisted by: Matthias Reiss (Editor), Matthias (Research Fellow Reiss (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2007
• EAN: 9780199226788
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922678-8
• No. of pages: 367
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London; Studies of the German Historic; Studies of the German Historical Institute, London; Studies of the German Historic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous