TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scalmer,Sean
TI  - Gandhi in the west: : the Mahatma and the rise of radical protest 
SN  - 9780521139588
U1  - 322.4 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Gandhi,
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Antinuclear movement
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Meeting the Mahatma; 2. Gandhism in action; 3. At war over words; 4. Waiting for the peace train; 5. The experimenters; 6. An idea whose time has come?; 7. Transformations unforeseen; Conclusion
N2  - "The non-violent protests of civil rights activists and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s helped to redefine Western politics. But where did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi's non-violent protests were the subject of widespread discussion and debate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though at first misrepresented by Western newspapers, they were patiently described and clarified by a devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westerners experimented with Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests of later years increasingly abandoned the spirit of non-violence, and the central significance of Gandhi and his supporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders its abiding significance"--
ER  -