
Charles Tilly
Author · 20 books
Charles Tilly was born on May 27, 1929 in Lombard, Illinois (a Chicago suburb), to an immigrant mother from Wales and into a working class family.Charles Tilly was one of the key figures in the establishment and institutionalization of the subfields of historical sociology, social science history, social movements, and contentious politics within contemporary social science. After a long and prolific career marked by the writing of more than fifty books and around seven hundred academic articles, Charles Tilly died from lymphoma on April 29, 2008 in a hospice in the Bronx.
Books

Stories, Identities, and Political Change
2002

Why?
2006

Social Movements, 1768 - 2018
2019

Credit and Blame
2008

Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000
2003

The Politics of Collective Violence
2003

Big Structures Large Processes Huge Comparisons
1984

Social Movements 1768-2012
2012

Social Movements, 1768-2004
2004

Contentious Performances
2008

The Formation of National States in Western Europe. (SPD-8), Volume 8
1975

European Revolutions, 1492-1992
1993

Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties
2005

Strikes in France 1830–1968
1974

From mobilization to revolution
1978

Trust and Rule
2014

Durable Inequality
1998

Regimes and Repertoires
2006

Democracy
2007

Contentious Politics
2006