As long as there have been formal governments, there has been
political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects
involving claims and counterclaims, compliance or resistance,
cooperation, resignation, condescension, and resentment. Where
political studies tend to focus on either those who rule or those
who are ruled, the essays in this volume call our attention to the
interaction between these forces at the very heart of contentious
politics. Written by prominent scholars of political and social
history, these essays introduce us to a variety of political
actors: peasants and workers, tax resisters and religious
visionaries, bandits and revolutionaries. From Brazil to Beijing,
from the late Middle Ages to the present, all were or are
challenging authority. The authors take a distinctly historical
approach to their subject, writing both of specific circumstances
and of larger processes. While tracing their origins to the social
history and structural sociology approaches of the sixties and
seventies, the contributors have also profited from subsequent
critiques of these approaches. Taken together, their essays
demonstrate that the relationship between mobilization for
collective action and identity formation is a perennial problem for
protest groups-a problem that the historical study of contentious
politics, with its focus on political interaction, can do much to
explain. Contributors: Risto Alapuro, U of Helsinki; Anton Blok, U
of Amsterdam; William Christian; Sonia De Avelar; Roger V. Gould, U
of Chicago; Marifeli Perez-Stable, SUNY, Old Westbury; Robert M.
Schwartz, Mount Holyoke; Marc W. Steinberg, Smith College; Carl
Strikwerda, U of Kansas; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell U; Marjolein 't
Hart, U of Amsterdam; Charles Tilly, Columbia U; Kim Voss, U of
California, Berkeley; Andrew Walder, Stanford U; R. Bin Wong, U of
California, Irvine.
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