Stories, identities, and political change

This book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events -revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. In this work, Tilly focuses on the role of stories as a means of creating personal identity and also as explanations -true or false- of political tensions ans realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world -the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group ientity are politically pivotal.