Contentious performances
By: Charles Tilly.
Series: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780521515849; 9780521731522
Subjects: Collective behavior; Political psychology; Political sociology; Demonstrations; Protest movements; Political violence; Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837
Description: "The book accomplishes three main objectives. 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"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.