Mobs :: an interdisciplinary inquiry /

The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and presentmobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the not...

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Other Authors: Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth), Koff, Leonard Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and presentmobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004216822
9004216820
ISSN:1875-2799 ;

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