From Mobilization to Revolution

by Charles Tilly

Book Overview

From Mobilization to Revolution thoroughly examines the ways people act together in pursuit of common interests. Throughout, the book present and applies various political process models for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201075717
• ISBN13: 9780201075717
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

How 'Bout Collective Action

Though perhaps not as exciting as... as... well, its not really very exciting at all. Professor Tilly rips to shreds nineteenth century notions of how populations organize to form dissent. His findings are often shocking. To summarize, he has discovered that most often populations organize in somewhat of a star shaped pattern when organizing to resist oppressive regimes, whereas they organize in a more free-flowing pattern (somewhat suggestive of radio waves when advocating Marxist revolution.