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Stories, Identities, and Political Change

By Charles Tilly

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2002
ISBN
0742518817, 9780742518810
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8189168 bytes)
Pages
288\135
Time added
2021-11-14 08:47:55

Description

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 book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world_the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.

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