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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Grimsted, David. American mobbing, 1828-1861. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97033073 (OCoLC)37588399 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Grimsted |
ISBN: | 9780195353662 0195353668 1423785134 9781423785132 1280428104 9781280428104 1280470372 9781280470370 0195303970 9780195303971 |
OCLC Number: | 59284861 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 372 pages) |
Contents: | Chapter 1: 1835: Year of Violent Indecision; Chapter 2: Riots Hatching Resistance: Against Abolitionists and in Aid of Fugitive Slaves; Chapter 3: The Peculiar Institution of Southern Violence; Chapter 4: White Fears: Silencing Questions; Chapter 5: Black Fears: Mastering Dark Realities; Chapter 6: Times That Tried Men's Bodies: The Manly Sport of American Politics; Chapter 7: The Mobs of the Second Party System; Chapter 8: Trying to Forget Slavery: Nativism and New Riots; Chapter 9: Bleeding Majoritarianism: The Sectional Mob Systems Meet, Mingle, and Mangle. |
Responsibility: | David Grimsted. |
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...Grimsted has produced a well-written and provocative account of a difficult subject. He is to be commended for making some sense out of the senseless, and his work should be read by all those interested in the causes of America's bloodiest war. * Mississippi Quarterly * ...a lively, eloquent study....American Mobbing is a smart, passionate examination of an unusually contentious era. Scholars and general readers interested in prewar America will wish to read it, and they will much enjoy the time spent doing it. * Civil War History * David Grimsted's groundbreaking tome, the product of over twenty-five years of work, is a deeply considered meditation on the relationship between mob violence and the coming of the Civil War....He addresses one of the central questions in American History and his important answers deserve widespread acclaim and continued commentary. * Journal of Social History * Grimsted offers lengthy analyses...extensive...contextual examinations...provocative and controversial. * The North Carolina Historical Review * ...David Grimsted has made a major contribution to the historiography of mob violence in the nineteenth-century United States. His book illuminates how often antebellum Americans negotiated their differences through rioting. More importantly it shows the price that this nation has paid for engaging in such behavior....American Mobbing is required reading for those interested in Civil War causation and the history of mob violence in the United States. * Reviews in American History * Read more...


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