Revolting New York
Subtitle: how 400 years of riot, rebellion, uprising, and revolution shaped a city
By: general editors, Neil Smith, Don Mitchell ; editors, Erin Siodmak, JenJoy Roybal, Marnie Brady, Brendan P. O'Malley
Series: Geographies of justice and social transformation -- 38; Geographies of justice and social transformation -- 38.
Publisher: University Of Georgia Press,
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780820352817; 9780820352824
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Riots; Demonstrations; History
Description: "For many, the appearance of Occupy Wall Street seemed so sudden and so surprising it seemed to have come out of nowhere. But Occupy Wall Street was in some sense not unusual: it was part and parcel of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped the city and the larger histories and geographies of which it is part. The history of New York is, in significant part, a history of revolt. Many citizens, activists, and scholars know pieces of that history, but nowhere has it been put together in something close to its entirety. The effect is that each revolt or uprising seems almost sui generis, always surprising, disconnected from both its long- and near-term history and social geography. Revolting New York brings together the historical geography of revolt in New York in its fullness, from the earliest uprisings of the Munsee against Dutch occupation of Manhattan to Occupy. All in a style accessible to a broad as well as academic audience The book will show that there is a continuous, if varied and punctuated, history of rebellion in New York that is at least as vital as the more standard histories of formal politics, planning, economic growth and restructuring that largely define our consciousness of New York's evolution and the structuring of life within it" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The Lightning Flash of Revolt  -- Don Mitchel; title: The revolt of the munsee : the destruction of New Amsterdam and the Creation of New York, 1629-1664  -- Amanda Huron and Raymond Pettit; title: The Great Negro Plot, 1741  -- Kathleen Dunn; title: The Stamp Act Revolt, 1765  -- JenJoy Roybal; title: Revolution : New York in Revolt, 1765-1783  -- Neil Smith; title: The Astor Place Riot, 1849  -- Brendan P. O'Malley; title: America's Deadliest Riot : The 1863 Draft Riots  -- Rachel Goffe and Esteban Kelly; title: "A Riot Is Now in Progress in Tompkins Square Park," 1874  -- Neil Smith; title: A New Urban Order: Transit Strikes, 1886-1895  -- Don Mitchell; title: "I did nothing whatever to justify this brutal assault upon me" : Manhattan's tenderloin race riot, August 1900  -- Brendan P. O'Malley; title: The Children's Crusade : The Gary Plan Riots, October 1917  -- Peter Waldman; title: "Fight, Don't Starve!" : The Communist Party and Mass Organizing during the great depression  -- Harmony Goldberg; title: The Harlem Riots, 1935, 1943, and 1964  -- Nicole Watson; title: The CUNY Open Admissions Strike, 1969  -- Justin Sean Myers; title: "Homosexuals Are Revolting" : Stonewall, 1969  -- Erin Siodmak; title: Burn, Baby, Burn : The 1977 Blackout and Riots  -- Miguelina Rodriguez; title: "Die Yuppie Scum" : Homelessness, Gentrification, and the Liberation of Tompkins Square Park, 1988  -- Neil Smith; title: Reclaiming the Streets : New York in the Global Justice Movement, 1999-2004  -- Malav Kanuga and Mcnair Scott; title: From lady liberty's fire : the New York City immigration protests of 2006  -- Marnie Brady; title: Occupy Wall Street : Finance Capital and Its Discontents, 2011 -- Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Zultán Gluck.