Charles Tilly

(noun)

(1929 – 2008) An American sociologist, political scientist and historian who wrote about the relationship between politics and society.

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Examples of Charles Tilly in the following topics:

  • The Stages of Social Movements

    • Charles Tilly defines social movements as a series of contentious performances, displays and campaigns by which ordinary people make collective claims on others.
    • For Tilly, social movements are a major vehicle for ordinary people's participation in public politics.
    • Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly have described the different stages that social movements often pass through (see ).
    • Discuss the process and purpose of social movements, defined by Blumer, Mauss and Tilly
  • State Formation

    • Sociologist Charles Tilly is the best known theorist in this tradition.
    • Tilly examined political, social, and technological change in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present and attempted to explain the unprecedented success of the nation-state as the dominant form of state on Earth.
    • In other words, instead of asking (like Wittfogel) where the very first states came from, Tilly asked where the types of states with which we're most familiar came from, and why they became so common.
  • France and Spain in the Revolutionary War

    • Prior to France's official involvement, King Louis XVI and the French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, the comte de Vergennes, authorized merchants to covertly sell gunpowder and ammunition to the Patriots.
    • Examples of these volunteers include Pierre Charles L’Enfant and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
    • Under François-Joseph Paul, Marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse, the French defeated a British fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, ensuring the success of allied ground forces in the Siege of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War.
  • Danish Intervention

    • Denmark's cause was aided by France, which together with Charles I, had agreed to help subsidize the war, not the least because Christian was a blood uncle to both the Stuart king and his sister Elizabeth of Bohemia through their mother, Anne of Denmark.
    • Moreover, some 6,000 English troops under Charles Morgan also eventually arrived to bolster the defence of Denmark, though it took longer for these to arrive than Christian hoped, not the least due to the ongoing British campaigns against France and Spain.
    • Christian, who knew nothing of Wallenstein's forces when he invaded, was forced to retire before the combined forces of Wallenstein and Tilly.
  • Stages in Social Movements

    • Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly, have described different stages social movements often pass through.
  • Charles X and the July Revolution

  • Glycocalyx and Capsule

  • Glycocalyx

  • Flagella

  • Fimbrae

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