{"product_id":"civil-disobedience-and-the-german-peter-e-quint-9780415442855","title":"Civil Disobedience and the German Courts: The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s the West German Peace Movement -- fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe -- engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Disobedience and the German Courts\u003c\/em\u003e traces the historical and philosophical background of this movement and follows a group of demonstrators through their trials in the German criminal courts up to the German Constitutional Court -- in which their fate was determined in two important constitutional cases. In this context, the volume also analyzes the German Constitutional Court, as a crucial institution of government, in comparative perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is the first full-length English language treatment of these events and constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter E. Quint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415442850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415442855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge Cavendish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.81h x 5.67w x 0.88d","brand":"Peter E. Quint","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064920486143,"sku":"9780415442855","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38034358-d2e4-46a8-8c1e-5973ecc6cb31.jpg?v=1768671929","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/civil-disobedience-and-the-german-peter-e-quint-9780415442855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}