Barricades on Broadway
Keyword(s):
New York
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This chapter uses the Astor Place theatre riot of 1849 to illuminate the tensions within American political culture over majoritarianism, political legitimacy and citizenship. It argues that the lethal confrontation between the militia and the mob was a crisis moment that formed the imagined enemies and the alliances that frame political choices. Those who supported the New York City mayor’s decision to call in the militia believed that violence was sometimes necessary to ensure that democracy was compatible with order. Their emphasis on the need for restraints on unfettered freedom provided the intellectual underpinning of the case against the Slave Power and secession.
From Regulation to Censorship: Film and Political Culture in New York in the Early Twentieth Century
2004 ◽
Vol 3
(4)
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pp. 369-406
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Keyword(s):
New York
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1942 ◽
Vol 74
(3-4)
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pp. 155-162