About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Charles Tilly, Richard F. Heck, David L. Norton, Hershel Parker, Linda Gottfredson, M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Shien Biau Woo, David Legates, Matthew Earnest, Barbara Landau, Richard Bushman, David Bushnell, William Poole, Gibbons Ruark, R. Byron Pipes, Robert Hillyer, Kathy Dettwyler, Amalia Amaki, David L. Mills, John G. McNutt, Robert Denhardt, John Pelesko, Harry Brautigam, Fleda Brown, Edward P. Alexander, Grant Lewi, Peter Jeffery, William Innes Homer, Byong Man Ahn, Peter Kolchin, Richard Hanley, Ben Yagoda, Arnold L. Rheingold, Leo Lemay, List of University of Delaware faculty, Gary Ferguson, Joseph T. Bockrath, David Smith, Donald West Harward, Vahan Janjigian, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Gene Ball, Mary Patterson McPherson, Kali S. Banerjee, Stephen Barr, Allan Cullimore, Allen Barnett, Enrico Quarantelli, Ralph Begleiter. Excerpt: Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 - April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Tilly was born on May 20, 1929, in Lombard, Illinois (near Chicago). He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1950 and completed Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology in 1958. Charles Tilly died on April 29, 2008 from lymphoma. As he was fading in the hospital, he got one characteristic sentence out to early student Barry Wellman: "It's a complex situation." In his obituary, Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger stated that Tilly "literally wrote the book on the contentious dynamics and the ethnographic foundations of political history." Adam Ashforth, of Northwestern University, described Tilly as "the founding father of 21st-century sociology." Charles Tilly taught at the University of Delaw...
