Charles Tilly
Birth date: May 27, 1929
Died: April 29, 2008
Charles Tilly's Books
An important book on the (relatively) late development of the idea of the State. Since Mogens Hansen has argued repeatedly and insistently -- and quite wrongly, imo -- that the ancient *polis* can and should be understood as representing a State (in the modern sense) -- rather than merely as the mor...