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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Revolting New York. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018] (DLC) 2017032690 (OCoLC)1005872096 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Neil Smith; Don Mitchell; Erin Siodmak; JenJoy Roybal; Marnie Brady; Brendan P O'Malley |
ISBN: | 9780820352800 0820352802 |
OCLC Number: | 1112670860 |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Introduction. The Lightning Flash of Revolt / Don Mitchel -- The revolt of the munsee : the destruction of New Amsterdam and the Creation of New York, 1629-1664 / Amanda Huron and Raymond Pettit -- The Great Negro Plot, 1741 / Kathleen Dunn -- The Stamp Act Revolt, 1765 / JenJoy Roybal -- Revolution : New York in Revolt, 1765-1783 / Neil Smith -- The Astor Place Riot, 1849 / Brendan P. O'Malley -- America's Deadliest Riot : The 1863 Draft Riots / Rachel Goffe and Esteban Kelly -- "A Riot Is Now in Progress in Tompkins Square Park," 1874 / Neil Smith -- A New Urban Order: Transit Strikes, 1886-1895 / Don Mitchell -- "I did nothing whatever to justify this brutal assault upon me" : Manhattan's tenderloin race riot, August 1900 / Brendan P. O'Malley -- The Children's Crusade : The Gary Plan Riots, October 1917 / Peter Waldman -- "Fight, Don't Starve!" : The Communist Party and Mass Organizing during the great depression / Harmony Goldberg -- The Harlem Riots, 1935, 1943, and 1964 / Nicole Watson -- The CUNY Open Admissions Strike, 1969 / Justin Sean Myers -- "Homosexuals Are Revolting" : Stonewall, 1969 / Erin Siodmak -- Burn, Baby, Burn : The 1977 Blackout and Riots / Miguelina Rodriguez -- "Die Yuppie Scum" : Homelessness, Gentrification, and the Liberation of Tompkins Square Park, 1988 / Neil Smith -- Reclaiming the Streets : New York in the Global Justice Movement, 1999-2004 / Malav Kanuga and Mcnair Scott -- From lady liberty's fire : the New York City immigration protests of 2006 / Marnie Brady -- Occupy Wall Street : Finance Capital and Its Discontents, 2011 / Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Zultán Gluck. |
Series Title: | Geographies of justice and social transformation, 38. |
Responsibility: | general editors, Neil Smith, Don Mitchell ; editors, Erin Siodmak, JenJoy Roybal, Marnie Brady, Brendan P. O'Malley. |
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Like a woke dog zapped by an invisible electric barrier whenever it tries to leave the yard, I now recognize the real reason I can't escape this place. Revolting New York is an electrifying compendium of tales of four centuries of the energetic insubordination that is so completely foundational to our character. While the causes and constituencies have varied all over our map, the constant has been taking to the streets, fomenting an unending festival of resistance. I couldn't be prouder than to discover that my homes downtown have been at uprising's very epicenter. You can't scare me; I'm sticking to the Union Square!"- Michael Sorkin, author of What Goes Up: The Rights and Wrongs of the City"Revolting New York takes you on a whirlwind tour of Indian wars, riots, slave revolts, strikes, protests, and police rampages, from Dutch New Amsterdam to Occupy Wall Street. The sheer number and ferocity of past disorders, and the strangeness of so many of them, will leave you seeing the history of New York as you never did before."- Joshua B. Freeman, author of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II"Urban unrest, observed Alain Locke after the Harlem Riots of 1935, is like 'a revealing flash of lightning' that illuminates larger dynamics. Using this insight as premise and guide, Revolting New York reveals how the entire social history of the city can be narrated through those frequent moments, over the past four centuries, when the tensions of urban life, and the violence of inequality, have boiled over in its streets. This volume's creators, led by two of our foremost urban geographers, show that you can't understand social change or urban history without examining the 'flashpoints' through which the city is fought for-and sometimes even won-by people desirous of a life here that's not revolting at all."- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, coeditor of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Read more...

