The Contentious French

Charles Tilly

  • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association

The Challenge of Popular Struggle

Burgundy Battles

France over Four Centuries

Anjou's Crises

Purse, Sword, Loaf, and Cross

Toulouse, Languedoc, and Enlightenment France

Statemaking, Capitalism, and Contention

Flanders from the Revolution to the Great War

Revolutions and Social Movements

Festivals and Fights in the Ile-de-France

Parties, Regimes, and Wars

Four Centuries of Struggle

A Note on the Evidence

Bibliography

Index

Charles Tilly, formerly University Distinguished Professor at the New School for Social Research, is now Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.