Revolting New York: how 400 years of riot, rebellion, uprising, and revolution shaped a city

"For many, the appearance of Occupy Wall Street seemed so sudden and so surprising it seemed to have come out of nowhere. But Occupy Wall Street was in some sense not unusual: it was part and parcel of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped the c...

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Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Neil 1954-2012 (HerausgeberIn), Mitchell, Don 1961- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens University of Georgia Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:Geographies of justice and social transformation
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Zusammenfassung:"For many, the appearance of Occupy Wall Street seemed so sudden and so surprising it seemed to have come out of nowhere. But Occupy Wall Street was in some sense not unusual: it was part and parcel of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped the city and the larger histories and geographies of which it is part. The history of New York is, in significant part, a history of revolt. Many citizens, activists, and scholars know pieces of that history, but nowhere has it been put together in something close to its entirety. The effect is that each revolt or uprising seems almost sui generis, always surprising, disconnected from both its long- and near-term history and social geography. Revolting New York brings together the historical geography of revolt in New York in its fullness, from the earliest uprisings of the Munsee against Dutch occupation of Manhattan to Occupy. All in a style accessible to a broad as well as academic audience The book will show that there is a continuous, if varied and punctuated, history of rebellion in New York that is at least as vital as the more standard histories of formal politics, planning, economic growth and restructuring that largely define our consciousness of New York's evolution and the structuring of life within it" ...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:vii, 348 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780820352817
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