Title: Contentious performances
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Political psychology, Political sociology, Protest movements, Political violence, Collective behavior, Demonstrations, History, Great britain, history, 1714-1837
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 1714-1837
LC classification: HM866 .T55 2008