The taming of the American crowd
Subtitle: from stamp riots to shopping sprees
By: by Al Sandine.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781583671979; 9781583671986
Subjects: United States -- Social conditions; Crowds -- United States -- History; Social control -- United States -- History; Collective behavior -- United States -- History; Popular culture -- United States -- History; Political culture -- United States -- History; Mass society -- History; United States -- Social life and customs; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. What crowds are for; title: The city mob; title: Purposeful crowds in the United States; title: Rollicking in the streets; title: Americans at play; title: The festival of the sixties; title: Rioting for fun; title: pt. 2. When crowds ruled; title: Crowd rule in the ancient world; title: Crowds make a revolution; title: America's revolutionary crowds; title: Forgotten rioters and other crowds; title: Human rights melees and anti-immigrant rioting; title: The St. Louis general strike; title: Mass rebellion in the industrial heartland; title: En masse strike support; title: Ghetto eruptions; title: When everyone sat down; title: pt. 3. Killer crowds; title: The crowd pathologized; title: Dissecting the murderous crowd's mind; title: pt. 4. Crowd as opportunity; title: Power shows; title: America on parade; title: Competing lesson plans; title: Dazzling the multitude; title: We interrupt this message; title: Pariah parade; title: Every corner a classroom; title: Parade as coming out; title: Dissident marchers today; title: Parade as happy face; title: pt. 5. Who owns the crowd?; title: Bought crowds in America; title: Celebration as cultural engineering, ad, and market; title: Media-driven crowds; title: Retrospective appropriations; title: Who owns the consumer crowd?; title: pt. 6. Regimes of crowd control; title: Crowds and the Constitution; title: Invention of the police; title: Experiments in self-policing; title: Controlling spectators; title: Screenings; title: Policing non-consuming crowds; title: Cracking down on dissidents; title: Crowds of disaster; title: pt. 7. Safe crowds; title: The late downtown; title: Residential dispersal; title: Car commuters; title: Shoppers; title: The mall; title: The compliant crowds of "Generica"; title: Imitation of someplace; title: Malling the downtown; title: Big box churches; title: pt. 8. Who needs crowds?; title: The evolution of assembly rights; title: Toward crowd obsolescence?; title: Crowds and catastrophe revisited .