[A] panoramic survey of four centuries of social conflict...A
persuasive and well-written recreation of the dense texture of
daily lives...Tilly is concerned to understand the actors in their
own terms and not to condemn them as irrational mobs,
sentimentalize them as the virtuous oppressed or patronize them as
'primitive rebels.' -- Alan B. Spitzer "New York Times Book
Review"
A bold, stimulating synthesis which all students of the broad sweep
of modern French history will want to ponder and argue about. --
William Doyle "Times Higher Education Supplement"
condemn them as irrational mobs, sentimentalize them as the
virtuous oppressed or patronize them as 'primitive rebels.'
ÝA¨ panoramic survey of four centuries of social conflict...A
persuasive and well-written recreation of the dense texture of
daily lives...Tilly is concerned to understand the actors in their
own terms and not to condemn them as irrational mobs,
sentimentalize them as the virtuous oppressed or patronize them as
'primitive rebels.' -- Alan B. Spitzer "New York Times Book
Review"
Few historians are more familiar with the rich qualitative and
quantitative material on popular protest, and no scholar has spent
more hours in more French archives in search of the causes behind
collective actions...If the historian's charge is to make sense of
the seemingly senseless, to weave a coherent story from disparate
threads, Professor Tilly has applied his formidable talents to the
perfect subject and met the challenge on many fronts. -- Michael
Burns "American Scholar"
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