Full Description
Westerners invented social movements during the 18th century, but after that social movements became vehicles of popular politics across the world. By locating social movements in history, prize-winning social scientist Charles Tilly provides rich and often surprising insights into the origins of contemporary social movement practices, relations of social movements to democratization, and likely futures for social movements.
Contents
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
