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  • Why?

    What Happens When People Give Reasons . . . and Why

    by Charles Tilly ...
    An "eminently readable and interesting" analysis of the four basic reasons people give to explain events or behaviors ( Library Journal)."In the tradition of the legendary sociologist Erving Goffman, Tilly seeks to decode the structure of everyday social interaction, and the result is a book that forces readers to reexamine everything from the way they talk to their children to the way they argue ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Collective Violence

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, incidents of road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book, first published in 2003, seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Democracy

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Contentious Politics

    by Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow ...
    Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Explaining Social Processes

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Connections: Volume 2, Since 1500

    Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

    by John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Peter C. Perdue, Charles Tilly, Michael P. Hanagan, Louise Tilly ...
    The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

  • Reliving the Past

    The Worlds of Social History

    by Olivier Zunz, Charles Tilly, David William Cohen, David William Cohen, William B. Taylor, William T. Rowe ...
    Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need for a social history ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500

    Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

    by John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Peter C. Perdue, Charles Tilly, Michael P. Hanagan, Louise Tilly ...
    The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • Stories, Identities, and Political Change

    by Charles Tilly ...
    An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. TillyOs newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events_revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Coalitions across Borders

    Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order

    by Ethel Brooks, Pauline Cullen, Bob Edwards, Daniel Faber, John W. Foster, Arunas Juska, Laura Macdonald, Gay W. Seidman, Charles Tilly, Peter Waterman, Lesley J. Wood ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    Coalitions across Borders shows how social movements have cooperated and conflicted as they work to develop a transnational civil society in response to perceived threats of neoliberalism-free trade, privatization, structural adjustment, and unbridled corporate power. The authors explore the processes of transnational mobilization, discussing the motivations and methods of cross-border cooperation ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Durable Inequality

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • From Contention to Democracy

    by William Gamson, Jack A. Goldstone, Michael Hanagan, Patricia L. Hispher, Timo Lyyra, Alberto Melucci, Florence Passy, Salvador A. M. Sandoval, Sidney Tarrow ...
    From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change.Three broad types of movement-change nexus are ... Read more

    $55.99 USD