The road to mobocracy : popular disorder in New York City, 1763-1834

The road to mobocracy : popular disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilje, Paul A., 1951- (Author)
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, [1987]
Subjects:
1700-1899
Mobs > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Mobs > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Riots > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Riots > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Tumultos > Nueva York (Ciudad) > Historia > Siglo XIX.
Rassemblements > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Rassemblements > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mobs.
Riots.
Oproeren.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Pre-revolutionary traditions of Anglo-American mobs
  • Rioting in the revolution
  • Popular disorder in wartime and the Post-Revolutionary Period
  • Political popular disturbances
  • Emergence of ethnic conflict
  • Racial rioting
  • Labor action
  • Middle-class culture and plebeian mobs
  • A disordered society
  • Policing the city: changing notions of riot control
  • Afterword: Volcano under the city
  • Appendix: problems in identifying the mob.

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