Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890-1948 Volume 16

by Kevin Grant

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520301013
• ISBN13: 9780520301016
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"