📚 Social Movements

Books with social movements on their catalogue record, first published between 1951 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social movements in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 8,553 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Primitive Rebels	Eric Hobsbawm	1959	25
	The True Believer:Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements	Eric Hoffer	1951	24
	Ideengeschichte der sozialen Bewegung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts	Werner Hofmann	1962	23
	Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change	Patrick G. Coy	2000	18
	Ain't I a Woman	bell hooks	1981	17
	Freedom Is a Constant Struggle	Angela Y. Davis	2015	14
	How Democracies Die	Steven Levitsky	2017	13
	Global Activism	Ruth Reitan	2006	11
	Vallas Y Ventanas	Naomi Klein	2002	10
	A Brief History of Neoliberalism	David Harvey	2005	10
	Networks Of Outrage And Hope Social Movements In The Internet Age	Manuel Castells	2012	10
	Comments on the Society of the Spectacle	Guy Debord	1988	9
	Globalizing Civic Engagement	John D. Clark	2003	9
	The Blackwell companion to social movements	David A. Snow	2004	8
	Social Justice Movements	La Della Levy	2017	8
	The social movements reader	Jeff Goodwin	2003	7
	Social Movements	Suzanne Staggenborg	2007	7
	Public Relations As Activism	Derina R. Holtzhausen	2013	7
	Persuasion and social movements	Charles J. Stewart	1984	6
	Social movements	Doug McAdam	1996	6
	States, Parties, and Social Movements (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)	Jack A. Goldstone	2003	6
	Social Movements	Donatella della Porta	2008	6
	A renegade history of the United States	Thaddeus Russell	2010	6
	Research Ethics and Social Movements	Kevin Gillan	2014	6
	Social Networks and Social Movements	Nick Crossley	2014	6
	Protest, Movements, and Dissent in the Social Sciences	Giovanni A. Travaglino	2015	6
	Things that can and cannot be said	Arundhati Roy	2016	6
	Social Movements 1768 - 2018	Charles Tilly	2019	6
	Social Movements in India	Ghanshyam Shah	1990	5
	Slow Food	Carlo Petrini	2001	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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