The Transnational Activist Transformations and Comparisons from the Anglo-World since the Nineteenth Century /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Berger, Stefan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Scalmer, Sean (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: History, Modern.; World history.; Social history.; Modern History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Social History.

This book provides the first historical and comparative study of the 'transnational activist'. A range of important recent scholarship has considered the rise of global social movements, the presence of transnational networks, and the transfer or diffusion of political techniques. Much of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: The Transnational Activist: An Introduction; Stefan Berger and Sean Scalmer
• Chapter Two: Activism in the Antipodes: Transnational Quaker Humanitarianism and the Troubled Politics of Compassion in the Early Nineteenth Century; Penelope Edmonds
• Chapter Three: Not a Man of his own Time: Roger Casement and Transnational Activism; Mariana Bolfarine
• Chapter Four: Empire and Activism: Gandhi, Imperialism, and the Global Career of Satyagraha; Sean Scalmer
• Chapter Five: Translating Anti-capitalism throughout the Empire: Tom Mann and John Curtin as Transnational Activists, 1902-1916; Liam Byrne
• Chapter Six: Marceau Pivert and the Travails of an International Socialist; Talbot Imlay
• Chapter Seven: The Making of a Transnational Activist: The Indonesian Human Rights Campaigner Carmel Budiardjo; Katharine McGregor
• Chapter Eight: Speaking Out for Justice: Bella Galhos and the International Campaign for the Independence of East Timor; Hannah Loney
• Chapter Nine: Jessie Street: Activism without Discrimination; Chloe Ward
• Chapter Ten: A Very Rooted Cosmopolitan: EP Thompson`s Englishness and His Transnational Activism; Stefan Berger and Christian Wicke
• Chapter Eleven: From the Local to the Global and Back Again: The Rainforest Information Centre and Transnational Environmental Activism in the 1980s; Iain McIntyre
• Chapter Twelve: Animal Rights Without Borders: Lyn White & Transnational Investigative Campaigning; Gonzalo Villanueva
• Chapter Thirteen: Afterword: Transnational Activisms in Social Movement Studies; Donatella della Porta.