Charles Tilly (1929-2008)

I'm sorry to learn from Tyler Cowen that Charles Tilly has died. Permit me to repost:

• Personal Website
• Why? (2006) Buy from Amazon
  
• Lecture: Why (and How) Things Happen
• "How I Work" by Charles Tilly
• Major Works by Charles Tilly
• The Ideas Interview: Charles Tilly, The Guardian

Here's the Columbia announcement. Here's the NYTimes obituary. I like this:

Dr. Tilly once said his goal was to do sociology, history and political analysis at the same time, but he said it with what colleagues said was his typical intellectual humility.

“My efforts to harmonize all three have always failed in one way or another,” he said in an interview with Contemporary Authors, “but the failures, happily, are usually of the kind from which one learns something useful.”