Riot and revelry in early America / edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Electronic Publishing Venture (Project)
Other Authors:	Dennis, Matthew, 1955- Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960- Pencak, William, 1951-2013
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2002], ©2002.
Subjects:	Festivals > United States > History > 18th century. Parades > United States > History > 18th century. Riots > United States > History > 18th century. Popular music > United States > History > 18th century. United States > Social life and customs > To 1775. Electronic books.
Genre:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users
Physical Description:	1 electronic text (viii, 316 pages) : HTML format. Also issued in print.
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Skimmington in the middle and New England colonies / Steven J. Stewart
The rise of rough music: reflections on an ancient new custom in eighteenth-century New Jersey / Brendan McConville
Crowd and court: rough music and popular justice in colonial New York / Thomas J. Humphrey
Play as prelude to revolution: Boston, 1765-1776 / William Pencak
Rough music on Independence Day, Philadelphia, 1778 / Susan E. Klepp
White Indians in Penn's city: the loyal sons of St. Tammany / Roger D. Abrahams
The eighteenth-century discovery of Columbus: the Columbian tercentenary (1792) and the creation of American national identity / Matthew Dennis
American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic / Susan Branson and Simon P. Newman
African American festive style and the creation of American culture / William D. Piersen
The paradox of "nationalist" festivals: the case of Palmetto Day in antebellum Charleston / Len Travers.