ABSTRACT
By any standards, Charles Tilly must be rated as one of the most significant writers of contemporary Historical Sociology. He is certainly amongst the most prolific. His contributions to the subject have been extremely wide-ranging. He (1992a:ix) has stated that three of his career-long concerns have been ‘the history and dynamics of collective action, the process of urbanization, and the formation of national states’. This list, however, would ignore his considerable additions to the theoretical basis of Historical Sociology (Tilly 1981, 1984, 1990, 1992c, 1992d).
