Roads from Past to Future

by Tilly, Charles; Stinchcombe, Arthur L.

• ISBN13: 9780847684106
• ISBN10: 0847684105
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Over the years Charles Tilly has had an indelible influence on a remarkable number of key questions in social science and history. In the fields of social change, states and institutions, urbanization, and historical sociology, his seminal work has spawned whole new lines of inquiry and research. In one volume, this book offers the best and most influential of Tilly's important work, with a new introduction by the author that relates his analyses to a wide body of scholarship.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Social Itineraries	p. 1
Future Social Science	p. 17
Invisible Elbow	p. 35
The Modernization of Political Conflict in France	p. 51
Does Modernization Breed Revolution?	p. 109
Cities, Bourgeois, and Revolution in France	p. 133
War Making and State Making as Organized Crime	p. 165
Democracy Is a Lake	p. 193
Parliamentarization of Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834	p. 217
Population and Pedagogy in France	p. 247
Migration in Modern European History	p. 265
Demographic Origins of the European Proletariat	p. 293
Tilly on the Past as a Sequence of Futures	p. 387
Selected Scholarly Publications by Charles Tilly, 1959-1996	p. 411
Index	p. 423
About the Authors	p. 433
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