The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834

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UNC Press Books, 1987 - History - 315 pages
The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social cor
 

Contents

PreRevolutionary Traditions of AngloAmerican Mobs
3
The Commonwealth Writers
6
The Corporate Ideal and Its Problems
9
Rules and Rituals of Mob Behavior
16
Pope Day
25
Membership of the Mob
30
Rioting in the Revolution
37
The Stamp Act the Crowd and the Whig Leaders
44
The Riot of 1834
162
Class
171
Labor Action
173
Labor Unrest among Seamen and Dockworkers
178
Mechanics Artisans Journeymen and Strikes
188
Stonecutters Ropemakers and the Rise of Violence
198
MiddleClass Culture and Plebeian Mobs
203
Riots at Churches and Religious Liberty
206

The Liberty Pole
52
The Committees and the Mob
58
Tar and Feathers and the Revolution
65
Popular Disorder in Wartime and the PostRevolutionary Period
69
British Soldiers Loyalists and the New York Fire
72
The British Evacuation
74
Riots of Communal Regulation in the 1780s and 1790s
78
Community in Conflict
93
Political Popular Disturbances
95
Partisan Politics and Antimob Rhetoric
100
Authority Competent to Check and Stop Assemblages
112
Emergence of Ethnic Conflict
121
Irish Catholics Paddy Processions and Highbinders
125
Irish Catholics and the Orangemen
133
The Irish and the Democratic Party
138
Racial Rioting
143
Riots by Blacks 18011832
147
Riots against Black Institutions
153
Criminality and Politics among Blacks
158
Public Lands and Trade Agreements
220
Dogs and Hogs in the Street
224
A Disordered Society
233
Tavern and Brothel Disturbances
236
Class Composition of Street Disorders
242
Theater Riots
246
Callithumpian New Years Celebrations
253
Youth Gangs
260
Policing the City Changing Notions of Riot Control
265
The Magistrates
269
The Rise of the Police
274
Volcano under the City
283
Problems in Identifying the Mob
289
Bibliography
293
NEWSPAPERS
295
DIRECTORIES
297
Index
303
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