The road to mobocracy : popular disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
Provides the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. Paul Gilje relates the practices of New York mobs to their American and European roots and uses both historical and anthropological methods to show how those mobs adapted to local conditions.
Print Book, English, 1987
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1987
History
xvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807817438, 9780807841983, 0807817430, 0807841986
15015726
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University, 1980) under title: Mobocracy