Social Movements, 1768-2008

Charles Tilly was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at ColumbiaUniversity, and is the author of fifty earlier books. He recently coauthored, withSidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics (Paradigm 2006). Lesley J. Wood is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University. Her workon globalization and social movements has been published as book chapters andin the journals Mobilization and the Journal o f World Systems Research. She iscurrently working on a monograph about diffusion and direct action tactics.

Preface to First Edition -- Preface to Second Edition -- 1 Social Movements as Politics -- 2 Inventions of the Social Movement -- 3 Nineteenth-Century Adventures -- 4 Twentieth-Century Expansion and Transformation -- 5 Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century -- 6 Democratization and Social Movements -- 7 Futures of Social Movements -- Discussion Questions -- References -- Publications on Social Movements by Charles Tilly, 1977-2008 -- Index -- About the Authors.