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Author Gilje, Paul A., 1951-

Title The road to mobocracy : popular disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 / Paul A. Gilje
Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations and Short Titles; PART I: TRADITIONS; 1. Pre-Revolutionary Traditions of Anglo-American Mobs; The Commonwealth Writers; The Corporate Ideal and Its Problems; Rules and Rituals of Mob Behavior; Pope Day; Membership of the Mob; 2. Rioting in the Revolution; The Stamp Act, the Crowd, and the Whig Leaders; The Liberty Pole; The Committees and the Mob; Tar and Feathers and the Revolution; 3. Popular Disorder in Wartime and the Post-Revolutionary Period; British Soldiers, Loyalists, and the New York Fire; The British Evacuation
Riots of Communal Regulation in the 1780s and 1790sPART II: COMMUNITY IN CONFLICT; 4. Political Popular Disturbances; Partisan Politics and Antimob Rhetoric; Authority Competent to Check and Stop Assemblages; 5. Emergence of Ethnic Conflict; Irish Catholics, Paddy Processions, and Highbinders; Irish Catholics and the Orangemen; The Irish and the Democratic Party; 6. Racial Rioting; Riots by Blacks, 1801-1832; Riots against Black Institutions; Criminality and Politics among Blacks; The Riot of 1834; PART III: CLASS; 7. Labor Action; Labor Unrest among Seamen and Dockworkers
Mechanics, Artisans, Journeymen, and StrikesStonecutters, Ropemakers, and the Rise of Violence; 8. Middle-Class Culture and Plebeian Mobs; Riots at Churches and Religious Liberty; Public Lands and Trade Agreements; Dogs and Hogs in the Street; 9. A Disordered Society; Tavern and Brothel Disturbances; Class Composition of Street Disorders; Theater Riots; Callithumpian New Tear's Celebrations; Youth Gangs; 10. Policing the City: Changing Notions of Riot Control; The Magistrates; The Rise of the Police; Afterword: Volcano under the City; Appendix: Problems in Identifying the Mob; Bibliography
Note on the SourcesUnpublished Sources; Newspapers; Directories; Other Published Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y
Analysis New York (City). Riots, 1620-1865
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index
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Subject 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
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Mobs.
Riots.
Oproeren.
New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
ISBN 9781469608648
1469608642