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Social Movements,
1768-2004
Charles Tilly
Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly and Sidney Tarrow
Westerners invented
social movements during
the 18th century, but after
that social movements
became vehicles of
popular politics across the
world. By locating social
movements in history,
prize-winning social
scientist Charles Tilly
provides rich and often
surprising insights into the
origins of contemporary social movement practices,
relations of social movements to democratization,
and likely futures for social movements.
Contents
1 Social Movements as Politics
2 Inventions of the Social Movement
3 Nineteenth Century
4 Adventures
5 Twentieth-century Expansion and Transformation
6 Social Movements
7 Enter the Twenty-first Century
8 Democratization and Social Movements
9 Futures of Social Movements
2005, 262 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59451-043-1 / 978-1-59451-043-4
paper $23.95 CRO
Revolutions, social
movements, religious and
ethnic conflict, nationalism
and civil rights, and
transnational movements
are forms of contentious
politics that combine
in Contentious Politics.
The book presents a
set of analytical tools
and procedures for
study, comparison,
and explanation of these very different sorts
of contention. Drawing on many historical and
contemporary cases, the book shows that similar
principles describe and explain a wide variety of
struggles as well as many more routine forms of
politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written the book to
introduce readers to an exciting new program of
political and sociological analysis.
Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor
of Social Science at Columbia University and is the
author most recently of Social Movements: 1768-
2004 (Paradigm 2004).
Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of
Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell.
His latest books are The New Transnational Activism
(Cambridge University Press, 2005) and (with
Donatella della Porta, eds.) Transnational Protest
And Global Activism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).
2006, 224 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59451-246-9 / 978-1-59451-246-9
paper $27.95 CRO
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