Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly (born May 20, 1929 in Lombard , Illinois , † April 29, 2008 in New York ) was an American historian , political scientist and sociologist .
Live and act
After studying at Harvard University , he received his doctorate in 1958 ( Ph.D. ). He then taught at the universities of Delaware , Toronto and Harvard. In 1969 he became professor of history and sociology at the University of Michigan , from 1981 to 1984 he was there Theodore M. Newcomb professor of social sciences. In 1984 he went to the New School for Social Research as a professor of history and sociology . Since 1996 he has been Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University . He published an extraordinary amount and was highly honored.
Tilly is known as a crossover between the disciplines of history , political science and sociology . He dealt with the interactions between politics and society with constant recourse to modern European history . He explained the emergence of nation states by saying that wars had become so costly after the invention of gunpowder and the establishment of mass armies that they could only be financed by capital-rich and populous states - which therefore historically survived. The systematic tax collection and other institutions of modern states were developed primarily for waging war.
Since the 1990s at the latest, Tilly has concentrated on investigating social change , making his work more clearly sociological. His best-known book in German translation is Die Europäische Revolutionen (1993).
Charles Tilly is the brother of the economic historian Richard H. Tilly (* 1932).
Awards and honors (selection)
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1981), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975) and the American Philosophical Society (2002)
- Honorary Doctorates from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (1983), the Institut d'études politiques (1993), the University of Toronto (1995), the University of Strasbourg (1996), the University of Geneva (1999), the University of Crete (2002), the Université du Québec à Montréal (2005) and the University of Michigan (2007)
- Winner of the Premio Amalfi (1994) and the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (2006)
Works (selection)
- Social Movements, 1768-2004. 2005.
- Durable inequality. Univ. of California Press, 1999.
- with Chris Tilly: Work under capitalism. Westview Press, Boulder, CO 1998, p. 205.
- Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992. Blackwell, Oxford 1992, p. 100.
- Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons. Russell Sage Foundation, 1984.
- From mobilization to revolution. McGraw-Hill, New York 1978, p. 143.
- with G. Ardant: The formation of national states in Western Europe. Vol. 8, Princeton Univ. Press, 1975.
- with Louise Tilly and Richard H. Tilly: The Rebellious Century: 1830–1930. Harvard University Press, Harvard 1975, ISBN 0-674-74955-3 .
literature
- Volker R. Berghahn : Obituary for Charles Tilly (1929–2008). In: History and Society . Volume 34 (2008), pp. 407-414.
- Willfried Spohn : New Historical Sociology. Charles Tilly, Theda Skocpol, Michael Mann. In: Dirk Kaesler (ed.): Current theories of sociology. From Shmuel N. Eisenstadt to postmodernism . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52822-8 , pp. 196-230.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tilly, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian, political scientist, sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lombard (Illinois) , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 2008 |
| Place of death | New York City |