Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics.(Review)

Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics. Edited by Michael P. Hanagan, Leslie Page Moch, and Wayne Te Brake (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998) 284 pp. $54.95 cloth $21.95 paper

The school of contentious politics has served up a new collection of fifteen intellectual morsels, dedicated to Charles Tilly, its scholarly mentor. From Tilly's first chapter on "Political Identities," to Sidney Tarrow's concluding essay on transnational social movements ("Fishnets, Internets, and Catnets: Globalization and Transnational Collective Action"), an international group of scholars moves through familiar conceptual terrain. Part I includes five essays that explore "Networks, Identities, and …