Stephen C Poulson: 2 books
Why Would Anyone Do That?
Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and “extreme” mountain biking—hair-raising events held over exceedingly dangerous terrain—are prime examples of the new “lifestyle sports” that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits, practiced by a handful of characters,...
Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran
Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War...