Contentious Performances

by Charles Tilly

Book Overview

How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521731526
• ISBN13: 9780521731522
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"