Table of Contents

Recurrent Patterns of Collective Action / Mark Traugott
Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain, 1758-1834 / Charles Tilly
Barricades as Repertoire: Continuities and Discontinuities in the History of French Contention / Mark Traugott
The Roar of the Crowd: Repertoires of Discourse and Collective Action among the Spitalfields Silk Weavers in Nineteenth-Century London / Marc W. Steinberg
Cycles of Collective Action: Between Movements of Madness and the Repertoire of Contention / Sidney Tarrow
A Protest-Cycle Resolution of the Repression/Popular-Protest Paradox / Charles D. Brockett
Cycles and Repertoires of Popular Contention in Early Modern Japan / James W. White
"New Social Movements" of the Early Nineteenth Century / Craig Calhoun
"Initiator" and "Spin-off" Movements: Diffusion Processes in Protest Cycles / Doug McAdam
Index

About the Author

Mark Traugott, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Armies of the Poor and editor of The French Worker.

Reviews

"Taken together, all the essays point to the importance of examining states and social movements in interaction with each other and with the larger international political economy. Read in the context of other research and theory in this area, they contribute to our growing understanding of movement evolution."
--Pamela E. Oliver," American Political Science Review"

"This volume, which makes accessible in one place a set of readings that demonstrate the complementarity and centrality of the concepts of repertoires and cycles for the political-process model, deserves to be read by scholars and students of social movements, politics, and history."
--Verta Taylor," Contemporary Sociology"