Social Movements, 1768 - 2012

Name: Social Movements, 1768 - 2012
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ISBN: 9781612052380

ISBN-10: 161205238X

ISBN-13: 9781612052380

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Charles Tilly, Lesley J. Wood

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Available in time for your Fall Courses—Preorder your exam copy today!The updated and expanded third edition of Tilly’s widely acclaimed book brings this analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent topics as the economic crisis and related protest actions around the globe while maintaining their attention to perennially important issues such as immigrants’ rights, new media technologies, and the role of bloggers and Facebook in social movement activities. With new coverage of colonialism and its impact on movement formation as well as coverage and analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring, this new edition of Social Movementsadds more historical depth…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include "Why?" (Princeton) and "Democracy".

Lesley J. Wood is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University. Her work on globalization and social movements has been published as book chapters and in the journals Mobilization and the Journal of World Systems Research. She is currently working on a monograph about diffusion and direct action tactics.



Preface to First Edition


Preface to Second and Third Editions



Social Movements as Politics



Inventions of the Social Movement



Nineteenth-Century Adventures



Twentieth-Century Expansion and Transformation



Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century



Democratization and Social Movements



Futures of Social Movements


Discussion Questions


References


Publications on Social Movements by Charles Tilly, 1977-2010


Index


About the Authors