Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (232 p)
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780520972155
Serie:
Berkeley Series in British Studies 16
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Knowing Starvation: Science and Strange Stories -- 2. British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike, 1890-1914 -- 3. A Shared Sacrifice: Hunger Strikes by Irish Women and Men, 1912-1946 -- 4. Building the Nation's Temple: Hunger Strikes and Fasts by Nationalists in India, 1912-1948 -- 5. The Rule of Exceptions: Hunger Strikes and Political Prisoner Status in Britain, Ireland, and India, 1909-1946 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Inhalt:
Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial networks among revolutionaries and civil-rights activists from Russia to Britain to Ireland to India and beyond. He shows how the significance of hunger strikes and fasts refracted across political and cultural boundaries, and how prisoners experienced and understood their own starvation, which was then poorly explained by medical research. Prison staff and political officials struggled to manage this challenge not only to their authority, but to society's faith in the justice of liberal governance. Whether starving for the vote or national liberation, prisoners embodied proof of their own assertions that the rule of law enforced injustices that required redress and reform. Drawing upon deep archival research, the author offers a highly original examination of the role of hunger in contesting an imperial world, a tactic that still resonates today
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520301009
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780520301009
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/9780520972155
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