MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009039802
003 DLC
005 20091005200155.0
008 090924s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009039802
020 $a9781583671979 (pbk.)
020 $a9781583671986 (cloth)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aHN57$b.S26 2009
082 00 $a302.3/3$222
100 1 $aSandine, Al,$d1938-
245 14 $aThe taming of the American crowd :$bfrom stamp riots to shopping sprees /$cby Al Sandine.
260 $aNew York :$bMonthly Review Press,$c2009.
263 $a0911
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. Killer crowds -- The crowd pathologized -- Dissecting the murderous crowd's mind -- pt. 4. 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 -- pt. 5. 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? -- pt. 6. 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 -- pt. 7. 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 -- pt. 8. Who needs crowds? -- The evolution of assembly rights -- Toward crowd obsolescence? -- Crowds and catastrophe revisited .
650 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aCrowds$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial control$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aCollective behavior$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aMass society$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.