Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity (Forthcoming Routledge, 2017), and co-author with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of Social Movements 1768–2018 (Forthcoming Routledge, 2018), as well as articles on social movements, immigration, borders, and homelessness. He holds a PhD in sociology from Columbia University.Cathy Lisa Schneider is associate professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 2017 pbk.), Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile (Temple University Press, 1995), and assorted articles on military and police repression, social movements, and ethnic and racial discrimination. She holds a PhD in government from Cornell University.

Charles Tilly was one of the great sociologists of the last fifty years. He was the most important analyst of social movements and contentious politics, but also shaped inquiry into cities, inequality, and the understanding of social processes. Social change today makes his work all the more important. Castañeda and Schneider clearly present the scope of Tilly’s contributions and make his work accessible to a new generation of social scientists. -- Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Berggruen InstituteOver the course of several decades, Charles (Chuck) Tilly sent a great many ships (ideas/pieces of scholarship) into a great many seas. Some of us would follow a ship or three. Others would sit in the middle of an ocean or at a port to see what Chuck would send by. "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics and Social Change" serves as an amazing guide/companion/navigation device/travel log as one attempts to fathom all of the journeys taken by our dear friend. From revolutions to narratives, from theories to methods - it is all there. Like the guidebook to "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance," now we can revisit work that we thought we knew, visit works that we have heard about but never fully engaged with as well as see work that we didn’t even know that Chuck was doing. -- Christian Davenport, University of MichiganNo scholar in the past half century has more deeply shaped historical and political sociology, and no volume more effectively brings together a better sampling of his prodigious opus. This collection not only demonstrates how Tilly has shaped the agenda in many of sociology’s liveliest themes, but also captures his uncanny ability to seamlessly weave together theory, method, and substance. For the novice or the senior scholar, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand collective violence, contentious politics, and social change. -- William Roy, UCLACastañeda and Schneider have brought together some of Tilly's most influential and compelling pieces. By reading his analyses of cities, protest, wars, states, democracy and inequality - one sees the way that empirical research can be critical for understanding patterns in historical and contemporary contexts. In this moment of great change, Tilly offers us tools to understand the present and shape the future. This collection will satisfy both new readers and current followers of Tilly's work. -- Lesley J. Wood, York UniversityCharles Tilly shaped the thinking of several generations of scholars and activists. He was both prolific in his writing and generous in his engagement with the work of colleagues and students. He reached across disciplines, subfields and regions, diving deeply into empirical cases while working towards a more dynamic and relational conceptualization of political process. Precisely because his work is so far-reaching, it can be a challenge for emerging scholars to get a handle on the scope and evolution of his work. This collection by Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Schneider provides the ideal entryway into Tilly's work. As Tilly would have hoped, it will help young scholars generate more questions, new research, and better explanations. -- Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame

• I. Revolutions and Social Change1. The Vendeé2. Strikes in France 1830–19683. Does Modernization Breed Revolution? 4. From Mobilization to Revolution 5. Contentious Performances 6. Eight Pernicious PostulatesII. State Making7. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime8. Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990–1990 III. Democratization9. Democracy Is a Lake10. Where Do Rights Come from?11. Democratization and De-democratization12. Trust and Democratic RuleIV. Durable Inequality13. Durable Inequality 14. Poverty and the Politics of ExclusionV. Political Violence15. Contentious Conversation16. The Politics of Collective Violence 17. Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists VI. Migration and Race and Ethnicity18. Transplanted Networks19. Social Boundary Mechanisms 20. From Segregation to Integration VII. Narratives and Explanations21. Why Give Reasons?22. Credit, Blame and Social Life

Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity (Forthcoming Routledge, 2017), and co-author with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of Social Movements 1768–2018 (Forthcoming Routledge, 2018), as well as articles on social movements, immigration, borders, and homelessness. He holds a PhD in sociology from Columbia University.Cathy Lisa Schneider is associate professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 2017 pbk.), Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile (Temple University Press, 1995), and assorted articles on military and police repression, social movements, and ethnic and racial discrimination. She holds a PhD in government from Cornell University.

Charles Tilly was one of the great sociologists of the last fifty years. He was the most important analyst of social movements and contentious politics, but also shaped inquiry into cities, inequality, and the understanding of social processes. Social change today makes his work all the more important. Castañeda and Schneider clearly present the scope of Tilly’s contributions and make his work accessible to a new generation of social scientists. -- Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Berggruen InstituteOver the course of several decades, Charles (Chuck) Tilly sent a great many ships (ideas/pieces of scholarship) into a great many seas. Some of us would follow a ship or three. Others would sit in the middle of an ocean or at a port to see what Chuck would send by. "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics and Social Change" serves as an amazing guide/companion/navigation device/travel log as one attempts to fathom all of the journeys taken by our dear friend. From revolutions to narratives, from theories to methods - it is all there. Like the guidebook to "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance," now we can revisit work that we thought we knew, visit works that we have heard about but never fully engaged with as well as see work that we didn’t even know that Chuck was doing. -- Christian Davenport, University of MichiganNo scholar in the past half century has more deeply shaped historical and political sociology, and no volume more effectively brings together a better sampling of his prodigious opus. This collection not only demonstrates how Tilly has shaped the agenda in many of sociology’s liveliest themes, but also captures his uncanny ability to seamlessly weave together theory, method, and substance. For the novice or the senior scholar, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand collective violence, contentious politics, and social change. -- William Roy, UCLACastañeda and Schneider have brought together some of Tilly's most influential and compelling pieces. By reading his analyses of cities, protest, wars, states, democracy and inequality - one sees the way that empirical research can be critical for understanding patterns in historical and contemporary contexts. In this moment of great change, Tilly offers us tools to understand the present and shape the future. This collection will satisfy both new readers and current followers of Tilly's work. -- Lesley J. Wood, York UniversityCharles Tilly shaped the thinking of several generations of scholars and activists. He was both prolific in his writing and generous in his engagement with the work of colleagues and students. He reached across disciplines, subfields and regions, diving deeply into empirical cases while working towards a more dynamic and relational conceptualization of political process. Precisely because his work is so far-reaching, it can be a challenge for emerging scholars to get a handle on the scope and evolution of his work. This collection by Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Schneider provides the ideal entryway into Tilly's work. As Tilly would have hoped, it will help young scholars generate more questions, new research, and better explanations. -- Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame

• I. Revolutions and Social Change1. The Vendeé2. Strikes in France 1830–19683. Does Modernization Breed Revolution? 4. From Mobilization to Revolution 5. Contentious Performances 6. Eight Pernicious PostulatesII. State Making7. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime8. Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990–1990 III. Democratization9. Democracy Is a Lake10. Where Do Rights Come from?11. Democratization and De-democratization12. Trust and Democratic RuleIV. Durable Inequality13. Durable Inequality 14. Poverty and the Politics of ExclusionV. Political Violence15. Contentious Conversation16. The Politics of Collective Violence 17. Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists VI. Migration and Race and Ethnicity18. Transplanted Networks19. Social Boundary Mechanisms 20. From Segregation to Integration VII. Narratives and Explanations21. Why Give Reasons?22. Credit, Blame and Social Life