📚 Protest Movements

Organised dissent’s playbook: how campaigns form, escalate and win, read through the movements themselves.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject protest movements in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The age of protest	Norman F. Cantor	1969	12
	They marched into sunlight	David Maraniss	2002	9
	Globalizing Civic Engagement	John D. Clark	2003	9
	The Democracy Project	David Graeber	2012	8
	Play, Creativity, and Social Movements	Benjamin Shepard	2012	8
	The failure of nonviolence	Peter Gelderloos	2013	8
	Waging Nonviolent Struggle	Gene Sharp	1984	7
	Social Movements and Culture	Hank Johnston	1995	7
	Contemporary political protest	Abby Peterson	2001	7
	Insurrection	Kevin Danaher	2003	7
	Complexity and Social Movements	Graeme Chesters	2004	7
	Who's afraid of the black blocs?	Francis Dupuis-Déri	2013	7
	Antifa	Mark Bray	2017	7
	The unquiet woods	Ramachandra Guha	1989	6
	Hacktivism and Cyberwars	Tim Jordan	2004	6
	Collective Violence, Democracy and Protest Policing	David R. Mansley	2013	6
	Precariat	Matthew Johnson	2014	6
	Dissenting Lives	Anne Collett	2015	6
	Media, Mobilization and the Umbrella Movement	Francis L. F. Lee	2016	6
	Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements	Ilker Atac	2017	6
	Resisting Austerity	Cristina Flesher Fominaya	2018	6
	Screening Protest	Alexa Robertson	2018	6
	99%	David Graeber	2013	5
	Anarchist Cookbook	Keith McHenry	2015	5
	People and the State	Thomas O'Brien	2017	5
	Youth for Nation	Charles R. Kim	2017	5
	Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective	Marcel Paret	2017	5
	Read & Riot	Nadya Tolokonnikova	2018	5
	How to Blow up a Pipeline	Andreas Malm	2020	5
	Unmasked	Andy Ngo	2020	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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