Biblioteca / 1970-1979
Charles Tilly – Louise Tilly – Richard Tilly. The Rebellious Century, 1830-1930.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Londres: Dent & Sons, 1975. xiv, 354 páginas.
Edición en castellano: El siglo rebelde, 1830-1930. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 1998.
El libro de los Tilly es un clásico en los estudios sobre las acciones colectivas de protesta y violencia realizados desde el ámbito de la sociología histórica. El marco geográfico y cronológico elegido (Francia, Italia y Alemania entre 1830 y 1930) responde a la necesidad de limitar la investigación a unos países en que está bien documentado el tránsito de una economía básicamente agraria a otra industrial, así como el simultáneo desarrollo urbano. Los autores, cada uno de ellos especialista en el país del que se ocupa, describen conflictos sociales de varios tipos, explican su evolución histórica, discuten la interpretación que atribuye la violencia colectiva a la desintegración social y proponen un cambio del enfoque teórico basado en criterios políticos.
Contents
I – A Time of Rebellion
The Problem
Breakdown Theories
Solidarity Theories
Breakdown versus Solidarity
Traps to Avoid
Our Approach
Sources and Methods
II – France
A Violent Journey
The Journey’s Lessons
The Centralization of Power
The Nationalization of Politics
Wealth
Industrialization and Urbanization
Organization for Collective Action
The Changing Struggle for Power
Changing Forms of Collective Action
The Timing of Violence
Nineteenth-Century versus Twentieth-Century Patterns
Economic Fluctuations, Disorder, and Collective Violence
Conclusions
III – Italy
Unification
Italian Political Structure
The Economic Divisions of Italy
Cities and Urbanization
General Characteristics of the Population
Shifts in Class Structure
Organization for Collective Action
Long-Run Shifts in Violent Conflict
Unification and Local Conflict, 1848-1859
Transfers of Power, 1859 and 1860
Early Industrialization and Industrial Conflict, 1880-1900
The General Patterns of 1880-1900
The Background of Fascism
Postwar Collective Action
The Fascists en Route to Power
IV – Germany
The German Varieties of Violence
The Political Framework
Industrialization and Living Standards
Commercialization
Urbanization and Nationalization of Social Relationships
Population Change
The Rhythms of Collective Violence
Checking Some Obvious Hypotheses
The Political Bases of Violence and Repression
The Structure and Personnel of Violent Encounters
The Objectives of Violent People
What Difference Did Violence Make?
General Features of Germany’s Experience
Seas Chronology of German Industrialization
V – Comparisons
What Is There to Compare?
Frequency and Timing
Time Shapes
Violent and Nonviolent Collective Action
Changes in the Scope and Form of Collective Action
National Differences
The Politics of Collective Violence
Collective Violence and the Timing of Industrial Growth
VI – Conclusions
Marx and Collective Action
Collective Action Elsewhere
Association and Collective Action
The Effectiveness of Violence
The Political Setting
Violence and History
Contemporary Parallels
Back to Political Theory
Appendixes
A – A Rough Chronology of Collective Violence in France, 1830-1960
B – A Rough Chronology of Collective Violence in Italy, 1830-1960
C – A Rough Chronology of Collective Violence in Germany, 1815-1933
D – Sources and Procedures
Bibliography