Around the world, social movements have become legitimate, yet contested, actors in local, national and global politics and civil society, yet we still know relatively little about their longer histories and the trajectories of their development. This series seeks to promote innovative historical research on the history of social movements in the modern period since around 1750. We bring together conceptually-informed studies that analyse labour movements, new social movements and other forms of protest from early modernity to the present. We conceive of 'social movements' in the broadest possible sense, encompassing social formations that lie between formal organisations and mere protest events. We also offer a home for studies that systematically explore the political, social, economic and cultural conditions in which social movements can emerge. We are especially interested in transnational and global perspectives on the history of social movements, and in studies that engage critically and creatively with political, social and sociological theories in order to make historically grounded arguments about social movements. This new series seeks to offer innovative historical work on social movements, while also helping to historicise the concept of 'social movement'. It hopes to revitalise the conversation between historians and historical sociologists in analysing what Charles Tilly has called the 'dynamics of contention'.
Tim Verlaan, Christian Wicke (Ed.) (2024)
Stefan Berger, Klaus Weinhauer (Eds.) (2023)
Democracy, Social Justice and National Liberation around the World
Stefan Berger, Stefano Musso, Christian Wicke (Eds.) (2022)
The Northwest of Italy and the Ruhr Region in Comparison
Alan Kirkaldy (2022)
The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker
Claas Kirchhelle (2021)
Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)
Atdhe Hetemi (2020)
1968, 1981 and 1997
Kacper Szulecki (2019)
Human Rights and the Emergence of New Transnational Actors
Magnus O. Bassey (2024)
Stories from Queens College
Helena Hill, Andrés Brink Pinto (Eds.) (2023)
Contention in the Welfare State
Max Likin (2022)
The League of the Rights of Man and Causes Célèbres
Alexander Sedlmaier (Ed.) (2022)
Constance Bantman (2021)
Tommaso Milani (2020)
The Idea of Planning in Western Europe, 1914–1940
Stefan Berger, Alexandra Przyrembel (2019)
Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age
Stefan Berger, Christian Koller (Ed.) (2024)
Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest
Jesper Jørgensen, Flemming Mikkelsen (Ed.) (2023)
Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh (2022)
Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political Mobilisation
G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes, Premesh Lalu (Eds.) (2021)
Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa
Mathieu Fulla, Marc Lazar (Eds.) (2020)
Stefano Bellucci, Holger Weiss (Eds.) (2020)
Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO since 1919
Stefan Berger, Christoph Cornelissen (Eds.) (2019)
Case Studies from Germany, Italy and Other Western European States
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