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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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • 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

    $40.99 CAD

  • Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834

    by Charles Tilly ...
    'A rich and thoughtful book.' History 'A magnificent empirical resource accompanied by a subtle and powerful framework of interpretation...It is not often that historical scholarship is so effectively harnessed to the sociological imagination.' American Journal of Sociology 'This is a masterpiece of social movement analysis by an author at the peak of his analytical powers making full use of one ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • 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

    $71.99 CAD

  • Credit and Blame

    by Charles Tilly ...
    In his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when we assign credit or cast blame.Everybody does it, but few understand the hidden motivations behind it. ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • 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

    $94.99 CAD

  • 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

    $35.99 CAD

  • Social Movements, 1768 - 2018

    by Charles Tilly, Ernesto Castañeda, Lesley J. Wood ...
    Social Movements 1768-2018 provides the most comprehensive historical account of the birth and spread of social movements. Renowned social scientist Charles Tilly applies his synthetic theoretical skills to explain the evolution of social movements across time and space in an accessible manner full of historical vignettes and examples. Tilly explains why social movements are but a type of ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State

    by Joseph R. Strayer ...
    Series series
    The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD