Table Of ContentCharles Tilly was one of the great sociologists of the last fifty years, and
social change today makes his work all the more important. Castañeda
and Schneider clearly present the scope of Tilly’s contributions and
make his work accessible to a new generation of social scientists.
—Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics
and Political Science
No scholar in the past half century has more deeply shaped histori-
cal and political sociology, and no volume more effectively brings to-
gether a better sampling of his prodigious opus. This collection not only
demonstrates how Tilly has shaped the agenda in many of sociology’s
liveliest themes, but also captures his uncanny ability to seamlessly
weave together theory, method, and substance. For the novice or the
senior scholar, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand
collective violence, contentious politics, and social change.
—William Roy, University of California, Los Angeles
Castañeda and Schneider have brought together some of Tilly’s most in-
fluential and compelling pieces. In this moment of great change, Tilly
offers us tools to understand the present and shape the future. This col-
lection will satisfy both new readers and current followers of Tilly’s work.
—Lesley J. Wood, York University
Over the course of several decades, Tilly sent a great many ships (ideas/
pieces of scholarship) into a great many seas. Some of us would follow
a ship or three. Others would sit in the middle of an ocean or at a port
to see what Chuck would send by. This volume serves as an amazing
guide/companion/navigation device/travel log as one attempts to
fathom all of the journeys taken by our dear friend.
—Christian Davenport, University of Michigan
This collection by Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Schneider provides
the ideal entryway into Tilly’s work. As Tilly would have hoped, it will
help young scholars generate more questions, new research, and better
explanations.
—Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame
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Collective Violence,
Contentious Politics,
and Social Change
Charles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the
last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work on a wide array of
topics is available in one comprehensive reader. This manageable and read-
able volume brings together many highlights of Tilly’s large and important
oeuvre, covering his contribution to the following areas: revolutions and
social change; war, state making, and organized crime; democratization;
durable inequality; political violence; migration, race, and ethnicity; narra-
tives and explanations.
The book connects Tilly’s work on large-scale social processes such as
nation-building and war to his work on micro processes such as racial and
gender discrimination. It includes selections from some of Tilly’s earliest,
influential, and out of print writings, including The Vendée; Coercion, Capital
and European States; the classic “War Making and State Making as Organized
Crime;” and his more recent and lesser-known work, including that on dura-
ble inequality, democracy, poverty, economic development, and migration.
Together, the collection reveals Tilly’s complex, compelling, and distinc-
tive vision and helps place the contentious politics approach Tilly pioneered
with Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam into broader context. The editors
abridge key texts and, in their introductory essay, situate them within Tilly’s
larger opus and contemporary intellectual debates. The chapters serve as
guideposts for those who wish to study his work in greater depth or use
his methodology to examine the pressing issues of our time. Read together,
they provide a road map of Tilly’s work and his contribution to the fields
of sociology, political science, history, and international studies. This book
belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists, political ana-
lysts, cultural critics, and activists.
Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University
in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Immigration and Categorical In-
equality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity ( Forthcoming
Routledge, 2017), and co-author with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of S ocial
Movements 1768–2018 (Forthcoming Routledge, 2018), as well as articles on
social movements, immigration, borders, and homelessness. He holds a PhD
in sociology from Columbia University.
Cathy Lisa Schneider is associate professor in the School of International
Service at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of
Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York (University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 2017 pbk.), Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile
(Temple University Press, 1995), and assorted articles on military and p olice
repression, social movements, and ethnic and racial discrimination. She
holds a PhD in government from Cornell University.
Collective Violence,
Contentious Politics,
and Social Change
A Charles Tilly Reader
EdiTEd by
ErnEsto CastañEda and
Cathy Lisa sChnEidEr
First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tilly, Charles, author. | Castañeda, Ernesto, editor. | Schneider,
Cathy Lisa, 1955– editor.
Title: Collective violence, contentious politics, and social change: a Charles
Tilly reader / edited by Ernesto Castañeda, Cathy Lisa Schneider.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016047481 | ISBN 9781612056715 (pbk.) |
ISBN 9781612056708 (hbk)
Subjects: LCSH: Social conflict. | Social movements. | Political violence. |
Political sociology. | Social change.
Classification: LCC HM1121 .T539 2017 | DDC 303.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047481
ISBN: 978-1-6120-5670-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-6120-5671-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-20502-1 (ebk)
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Contents
Credits ix
introduction 1
Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Lisa Schneider
Part i
revolutions and social Change 23
1 The Vendée 25
2 Strikes in France 1830–1968 48
3 does Modernization breed Revolution? 55
4 From Mobilization to Revolution 71
5 Contentious Performances 92
6 Pernicious Postulates 100
Part ii
state Making 121
7 War Making and State Making as Organized Crime 123
8 Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.d. 990–1990 140
Part iii
democracy 155
9 democracy is a Lake 157
10 Where do Rights Come From? 168
11 democratization and de-democratization 183
12 Trust and democratic Rule 208
viii Contents
Part iV
durable inequality 225
13 durable inequality 227
14 Poverty and the Politics of Exclusion 249
Part V
Political Violence 265
15 Contentious Conversation 267
16 The Politics of Collective Violence 275
17 Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists 293
Part Vi
Migration, race, and Ethnicity 305
18 Transplanted Networks 307
19 Social boundary Mechanisms 326
20 From Segregation to integration 342
Part Vii
narratives and Explanations 369
21 Why Give Reasons? 371
22 Credit, blame, and Social Life 383
Index 397
Credits
Chapter 1
Excerpts from The Vendée by Charles Tilly. Published by Harvard University
Press. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 2
Excerpts from Strikes in France 1830–1968 by Edward Shorter and Charles
Tilly. Published by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 3
Excerpts from Roads from Past to Future by Charles Tilly and Arthur L.
Stinchcombe. © 1997 Rowman & Littlefield. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 4
Excerpts from From Mobilization to Revolution by Charles Tilly. © 1978
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 5
Excerpts from Contentious Performances by Charles Tilly. © 2008 Charles
Tilly. Published by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 6
Excerpts from Tilly, Charles. 1985. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Com-
parisons. Russell Sage Foundation. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 7
Excerpts from Bringing the State Back by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer,
Theda Skocpol. © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.
