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Riot and revelry in early America
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Riot and revelry in early America

Author: William Pencak; Matthew Dennis; Simon P Newman
Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Pencak; Matthew Dennis; Simon P Newman
ISBN: 0271021411 9780271021416 0271022191 9780271022192 027102142X 9780271021423
OCLC Number: 49044936
Description: viii, 316 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Skimmington in the middle and New England colonies / Steven J. Stewart --
The rise of rough music: reflections on an ancient new custom in eighteenth-century New Jersey / Brendan McConville --
Crowd and court: rough music and popular justice in colonial New York / Thomas J. Humphrey --
Play as prelude to revolution: Boston, 1765-1776 / William Pencak --
Rough music on Independence Day, Philadelphia, 1778 / Susan E. Klepp --
White Indians in Penn's city: the loyal sons of St. Tammany / Roger D. Abrahams --
The eighteenth-century discovery of Columbus: the Columbian tercentenary (1792) and the creation of American national identity / Matthew Dennis --
American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic / Susan Branson and Simon P. Newman --
African American festive style and the creation of American culture / William D. Piersen --
The paradox of "nationalist" festivals: the case of Palmetto Day in antebellum Charleston / Len Travers.
Responsibility: edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman.

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