Nuclear Summer: The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment

by Louise Krasniewicz

Book Overview

When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise Krasniewicz reconstructs the drama surrounding the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501727974
• ISBN13: 9781501727979
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher