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The taming of the American crowd : from stamp riots to shopping sprees
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The taming of the American crowd : from stamp riots to shopping sprees / by Al Sandine.
ISBN
9781583671979 (pbk.)
1583671978 (pbk.)
9781583671986 (cloth)
1583671986 (cloth)
Published
New York : Monthly Review Press, c2009.
Physical Description
272 p. ; 21 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 13, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
What crowds are for
The city mob
Purposeful crowds in the United States
Rollicking in the streets
Americans at play
The festival of the sixties
Rioting for fun
When crowds ruled
Crowd rule in the ancient world
Crowds make a revolution
America's revolutionary crowds
Forgotten rioters and other crowds
Human rights melees and anti-immigrant rioting
The St. Louis general strike
Mass rebellion in the industrial heartland
En masse strike support
Ghetto eruptions
When everyone sat down
Killer crowds
The crowd pathologized
Dissecting the murderous crowd's mind
Crowd as opportunity
Power shows
America on parade
Competing lesson plans
Dazzling the multitude
We interrupt this message
Pariah parade
Every corner a classroom
Parade as coming out
Dissident marchers today
Parade as happy face
Who owns the crowd?
Bought crowds in America
Celebration as cultural engineering, ad, and market
Media-driven crowds
Retrospective appropriations
Who owns the consumer crowd?
Regimes of crowd control
Crowds and the Constitution
Invention of the police
Experiments in self-policing
Controlling spectators
Screenings
Policing non-consuming crowds
Cracking down on dissidents
Crowds of disaster
Safe crowds
The late downtown
Residential dispersal
Car commuters
Shoppers
The mall
The compliant crowds of "Generica"
Imitation of someplace
Malling the downtown
Big box churches
Who needs crowds?
The evolution of assembly rights
Toward crowd obsolescence?
Crowds and catastrophe revisited.
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