About the author (1978). Social scientist Charles Tilly was born in Lombard, Illinois on May 27, 1929. He graduated from Harvard Univeristy with a bachelor's ...

Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, ...

An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. Tilly's newest book ...

"Durable Inquality solidifies Charles Tilly's reputation as one of the world's most creative social scientists. It is a work of considerable theoretical ...

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, ...

May 24, 2012 ... Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of ...

In a dazzling new interpretation of four hundred years of modern French history, Charles Tilly focuses not on kings and courtiers but on the common people ...

Mar 2, 1998 ... Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality.

Apr 2, 2007 ... Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last ...

Theories and descriptions of collective action - Interests, organization, and mobilization - The opportunity to act together - Changing forms of collective ...