Stories, Identities, and Political Change - Softcover

Tilly, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742518825 ISBN 13: 9780742518827

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

This 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 on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Tilly, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, is the author of more than thirty books. He lives in Manhattan, New York.

Review:

Reading work by Charles Tilly is a pleasure and this book is no exception. (Political Studies Review)

A brilliant and inspiring new collection of essays. (Mobilization)

Whether or not one agrees with his orientation of contentious politics, Tilly's ideas are always provocative. Essential. (CHOICE)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742518825
• ISBN 13: 9780742518827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288