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Contentious Performances

By Charles Tilly

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
052151584X, 9780521515849
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1000 kB (1023766 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Edition
1
Pages
256\254
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-09-17 15:43:37
Economics;Banks & Banking;Commerce;Commercial Poli

Description

How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such events, both individually and in the aggregate. Third, it illustrates its methods and arguments by means of detailed analyses of contentious events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.

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