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'A comprehensive range of social movements is treated in 16 broad categories, from civil rights and women to antiwar protests and global justice. Timely entries on the Fair Trade Coffee campaign and the anti-sweatshop movement highlight current issues, while the section on antiwar movements covers everything from early Quaker pacifism to protests of the current U.S. intervention in Iraq. Students researching antebellum abolitionists, the history of gay-rights movements, or the development of conservativeAmerican politics will find useful and authoritative information.'--'Reference that rocks,' American Libraries, May 2005.Sixteen broad categories offer information on a range of social movements, from civil rights and women to pacifism and prtotest of the U.S. intervention in Iraq.

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Presents the history of third political parties and independent candidacies from the early American republic to the 1990s, with details on over one hundred fifty parties and brief biographies of the major players and candidates.

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