Tilly, Louise.

"The social history I envision studies past economic, political, and social structures, as well as collectivities [...]. It studies the connections between and among structures, processes of change, and human action. It posits an interdependence of structure and action-human agents produce structures, intentionally or not, even as structures facilitate or constrain human action […]. [Narrative and structural analyses] are needed to describe past structures and events and to explain their connections; together, they communicate the essence of history."

Louise Tilly, American Historical Association Presidential Address, 1993.

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