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  • Custom and Commerce in Early Industrial Europe

  • Edward Countryman
  • Journal:
    International Labor and Working-Class History / Volume 34 / Fall 1988
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 December 2008, pp. 102-103
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  • The Problem of the Early American Crowd

  • Edward Countryman
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / April 1973
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    16 January 2009, pp. 77-90
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    April 1973

  • Some six years ago Gordon Wood closed a brief discussion of mobs in the American Revolution by asking whether, if the mob was no less a mob than its European counterpart, the revolution was any less a revolution. Three recent full-length studies, Pauline Maier's From Resistance to Revolution, Richard D. Brown's Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts and Patricia U. Bonomi's A Factious People, deal in significant part with mob, or, as I will call it, crowd activity in early America, although in none of them does it form the main subject. The approach to it of all three is fresh and sophisticated but, as the cliché goes, they raise as many questions as they answer. This essay will look first at the questions they answer and then go on to the ones they raise.