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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 129. Not illustrated. Chapters: University of Delaware Faculty, Charles Tilly, David L. Norton, Shien Biau Woo, David Legates, Linda Gottfredson, M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Barbara Landau, Matthew Earnest, Richard Bushman, William Poole, Gibbons Ruark, R. Byron Pipes, Robert Hillyer, John G. Mcnutt, Robert Denhardt, Grant Lewi, Harry Brautigam, Richard Hanley, Fleda Brown, Peter Kolchin, Ralph Begleiter, Ben Yagoda, John Pelesko, William Innes Homer, Edward P. Alexander, List of University of Delaware Faculty, Donald West Harward, David Smith, Joseph T. Bockrath, Vahan Janjigian, Christine Leigh Heyrman, David L. Mills, Gene Ball, Gary Ferguson, Allan Cullimore, Kali S. Banerjee, Mary Patterson Mcpherson, Allen Barnett, Hershel Parker, Enrico Quarantelli. Excerpt: Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote books on the relationship between politics and society. Tilly was born on May 20, 1929, in Lombard, Illinois (near Chicago). He was educated at Harvard and Oxford, obtaining the Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard in 1958. He taught at the University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, The New School, and Columbia University. At Columbia, he was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science. Over the course of his career, Tilly wrote more than 600 articles and 51 books and monographs. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Sociological Research Association and the Ordre des Palmes Academiques. Tilly received several awards including the Common Wealth Award in sociology in 1982, the Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1994, the Eastern Sociological Society's Merit Award for Distinguished Scholarshi...
