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The first full-length treatment of cycling activism as a social movement, this book draws on social movement theory as a means to understand cycling activism and presents a series of case studies of collective action, in order to elaborate a theoretical model through which diverse campaigns and approaches to change can be understood.

Originally published in 1892, Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivorsis a collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhapsthe worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.On the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two o?clock on the morning of April27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying over 2,400 passengers (it was licensed to carry only 356), exploded and sank. Over 1,700 people perished.Most of the passengers were Union soldiers recently released from Confederateprisons. Many were from East Tennessee. They had boarded at Vicksburg, where...