{"product_id":"last-weapons-9780520301016","title":"Last Weapons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLast 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 of hunger strikes and fasts refracted across political and cultural boundaries, and how prisoners experienced and understood their own starvation, which was then poorly explained by medical research. Prison staff and political officials struggled to manage this challenge not only to their authority, but to society's faith in the justice of liberal governance. Whether starving for the vote or national liberation, prisoners embodied proof of their own assertions that the rule of law enforced injustices that required redress and reform. Drawing upon de\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-researched and insightful. . . .Grant’s perceptive study reveals the extents and limits of activists’ use of the hunger strike to challenge the state.\" * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Knowing Starvation: Science and Strange Stories\u003cbr\u003e 2. British Suff ragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger\u003cbr\u003e Strike, 1890–1914\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Shared Sacrifice: Hunger Strikes by Irish Women and\u003cbr\u003e Men, 1912–1946\u003cbr\u003e 4. Building the Nation’s Temple: Hunger Strikes and Fasts\u003cbr\u003e by Nationalists in India, 1912–1948\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Rule of Exceptions: Hunger Strikes and Political Prisoner\u003cbr\u003e Status in Britain, Ireland, and India, 1909–1946\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359053218135,"sku":"9780520301016","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520301016.jpg?v=1754123390","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/last-weapons-9780520301016","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}