Strangers at the Gates : Movements and States in Contentious Politics
ISBN: 9781107402010 | 1107402018
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/26/2012
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"This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political... MORE
| List of Tables and Figures | p. vi |
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Theories of Contentious Politics | p. 6 |
| Movements in History, Histories of Movements | |
| Peasants and Communists in Southern Italy | p. 29 |
| State Building and Contention in America | p. 45 |
| The French Revolution, War, and State Building | p. 60 |
| Movements, Parties... MORE | |
| States, Movements, and Opportunities | p. 77 |
| The Phantom at the Opera | p. 93 |
| Events, Episodes, and Cycles | |
| From Eventful History to Cycles of Contention | p. 115 |
| From "Moments of Madness" to Waves of Contention | p. 131 |
| Outcomes of Contention | |
| Social Protest and Policy Breakthroughs | p. 147 |
| "What's in a Word?" How Contention Shapes Contentious Language | p. 160 |
| Transnational Contention | |
| Rooted Cosmopolitans and Transnational Activists | p. 181 |
| Transnational Contention and Human Rights | p. 200 |
| Bibliography | p. 219 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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