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Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- World Map -- Chapter 1 Historical Background on the 1967 Detroit Riots -- 1. Overview of the 1967 Detroit Riots -- 2. President Johnson Explains Why He Is Sending Troops into Detroit -- 3. Congress Struggles to Respond to Urban Rioting -- 4. Police Terrorize Citizens in the Algiers Motel -- 5. The Victims of the Detroit Riots -- Chapter 2 Controversies Surrounding the 1967 Detroit Riots -- 1. The Detroit Riots Show the Need for Elected Urban Black Leadership -- 2. An Elected Urban Black Leadership Did Not Solve Racial Problems in Detroit -- 3. The Detroit Riots Showed the Need for More Government Programs in Cities -- 4. Government Intervention Caused the Detroit Riots -- 5. Minority Groups Must Revolt Against Oppression -- 6. Black Revolutionaries Undermine the Cause They Seek to Represent -- 7. The 1967 Riots Led to Detroit's Decline -- 8. The 1967 Riots Did Not Cause Detroit's Decline -- 9. The Detroit Riots Hold Lessons for Understanding the 2011 UK Riots -- Chapter 3 Personal Narratives -- 1. A Journalist Who Lived in the Riot Zone Reports on Her Experiences -- 2. A Resident of the Detroit Suburbs Remembers the Riots -- 3. An Educator Recalls the 1967 Detroit Riots in the Summer After Her High School Graduation -- 4. The Big Bang -- 5. An Author Recalls How the Riots Interrupted Her Wedding Party -- Chronology -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Main description: Cathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.

In 2005, the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois provoked three weeks of rioting in French banlieues. Cars were burned, buildings were damaged and young people clashed with the police in unprecedented scenes of violence. The government declared a state of emergency as the riots spread across France. Two years later, the French public were met with familiar images when riots broke out in the Parisian suburb of Villiers-le-Bel. What were the underlying causes of these episodes of extreme violence? What did the riots signify? What do they tell us about French society? This book takes the

While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence. He not only analyzes how and to what extent the national government responded to the black urban riots, but he also moves toward a theoretical definition of the role of collective violence in a democratic society. In so doing, the author clarifies the utility or disutility of collective violence as a minority group strategy for effecting political change. Using a variety of sources and research techniques, Professor Button evaluates the effects of ghetto violence on public policy from a perspective that ranges from the earliest riots in 1963 to the later riots and their long-term impact through 1972. His use of rigorous empirical evidence to explore policy effects at the federal level fills the gap often left by more impressionistic research limited to case studies at a local level. The author's data indicate that many federal executive officials interpreted the acts of black urban violence in the 1960s as politically purposeful revolts intended to make demands upon those in power. James Button's work poses a serious challenge to those who argue that collective violence is apolitical, counterproductive, and pathological.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikeç shows how these revolts are in fact rooted in exclusions and genuine grievances which our democracies are failing to address. In this eye-opening study, he argues that global revolts may be sparked by a particular police or government action but nonetheless are expressions of much longer and deep seated rage accumulated through hardship and injustices that have become routine. Increasingly recognized as an expert on urban unrest, Dikeç examines urban revolts in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Greece, and Turkey and, in a sweeping and engaging account, makes it clear that change is only possible if we address the failures of democratic systems and rethink the established practices of policing and political decision-making

Is violent conflict in Africa urbanizing? How do urban protests and civil war intersect? How do narratives, mechanisms and identities of contention move between urban and rural arenas? These questions constitute the basis of investigation and analysis of this unique cross-disciplinary volume. Applying diverging perspectives and methods from political science, anthropology and urban African studies, the book carefully constructs the relational and entangled nature of contemporary forms of contentious politics in Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia

1. The anatomy of urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region : case of the Girona districts, 1979-2006 / Juli Valdunciel-Coll -- 2. Urban regeneration in Porto : reflections on a fragmented sub-regional space, without institutional powers and "lost" between central government and local authorities / Pedro Chamusca -- 3. Consumption of advanced internet services in urban areas : a case study of Madrid / Ruben Camilo Lois-Gonzalez, Francisco Jose Armas-Quinta and Jose Carlos Macia-Arce -- 4. Housing market dynamics in a peripheral region : the Atlantic urban axis in Galicia, Spain : 2001-2010 / Alejandro Lopez-Gonzalez and Maria-Jose Pineira-Mantinan -- 5. Viability of flagship projects as models of urban regeneration : the representation of space through the discourse of the actors / Jose Ignacio Vila Vazquez -- 6. Creativity beyond large metropolitan areas : challenges for intermediate cities in a globalized economy / Joan Ganau-Casas -- 7. Is Pennine England becoming more polycentric or more centripetal? An analysis of commuting flows in a transforming industrial region, 1981-2001 / Tony Champion and Mike Coombes -- 8. Riots by a growing social periphery? Interpreting the 2011 urban riots in England / Wayne K.D. Davies -- 9. In the shadow of a giant : core-peripheral contrasts in South East England / Daniel P. O'Donoghue -- 10. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel : regional development perspectives / Christian Wichmann Matthiessen -- 11. Vertical extension processes and urban restructuring in Sydney, Australia / Jun Tsutsumi -- 12. Inner-city social gentrification in Tokyo : the problem of childcare / Mikoto Kukimoto. [et al.] -- 13. Power nodes : downtowns in the periphery? A case study, Toronto, Canada / Jim Simmons -- 14. Just "dumb and boring" or "over"? Lifecycle-trajectories, the credit crunch and the challenge of suburban regeneration in the US / Markus Hesse -- 15. Urban transformation for sustainability and social justice in urban peripheries : new forms of urban segregation in post-apartheid cities / Simphiwe Mini -- 16. Recent morphological trends in metropolitan South Africa / H.S. Geyer. [et al.] -- 17. Metropolitan transformation and polycentric structure in Mexico City : identification of urban sub-centres, 1989-2005 / Adrian Guillermo Aguilar and Josefina Hernandez-Lozano -- 18. Delhi and its peripheral region : perspectives on settlement growth / Debnath Mookherjee, H.S. Geyer and Eugene Hoerauf.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The anatomy of a riot: the 'Battle of Trafalgar' -- 2 Disorderly demonstrations -- 3 The American urban riots -- 4 The British urban riots -- 5 Strike violence -- 6 Football hooliganism -- 7 The 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland -- 8 Media representations of public disorder -- 9 Contemporary policing and its democratic control -- 10 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Janet Abu-Lughod weaves together detailed narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space, political regimes, and economic conditions - not simply an abstract 'race conflict' - all structure the nature and extent of urban rebellions.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that, in the coming years, more than fifty countries are at risk of default. Yet we understand little about the political determinants of this decision to renege on promises to international creditors. This book develops and tests a unified theory of how domestic politics explains sovereign default across dictatorships and democracies. Professor Ballard-Rosa argues that both democratic and autocratic governments will choose to default when it is necessary for political survival; however, regime type has a significant impact on what specific kinds of threats leaders face. While dictatorships are concerned with avoiding urban riots, democratic governments are concerned with losing elections, in particular the support of rural voting blocs. Using cross-national data and historical case studies, Ballard-Rosa shows that leaders under each regime type are more likely to default when doing so allows them to keep funding costly policies supporting critical bases of support.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that, in the coming years, more than fifty countries are at risk of default. Yet we understand little about the political determinants of this decision to renege on promises to international creditors. This book develops and tests a unified theory of how domestic politics explains sovereign default across dictatorships and democracies. Professor Ballard-Rosa argues that both democratic and autocratic governments will choose to default when it is necessary for political survival; however, regime type has a significant impact on what specific kinds of threats leaders face. While dictatorships are concerned with avoiding urban riots, democratic governments are concerned with losing elections, in particular the support of rural voting blocs. Using cross-national data and historical case studies, Ballard-Rosa shows that leaders under each regime type are more likely to default when doing so allows them to keep funding costly policies supporting critical bases of support.

"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Part I: Urban Uprisings, Social Movements and Neoliberal Urbanism" -- "1: Re-Thinking Urban Social Movements, 'Riots' and Uprisings: An Introduction" -- " Urban Uprisings in Contemporary Europe" -- " Riots, Resistance, Uprisings and Social Movements" -- " Post-War Riot Research" -- " Beyond Classical Riot Research" -- " Relinking 'Riots' and Movements: An Analytical Approach" -- " What is Urban About Today's Urban Social Movements?" -- " Urban Movements and Place Politics" -- " Urban Movements and the Production of the City" -- " A Thematic Overview of the Chapters" -- "References" -- "2: Neoliberal Urbanism and Uprisings Across Europe" -- " Conceptualizing Neoliberalization" -- " Neoliberal Urbanism" -- " Neoliberal Urbanism and Resistance" -- " A Larger and More Heterogeneous Field of Urban Activism" -- " Variegated Forms of Resistance Against Urban Upgrading" -- " Rebuilding the City from the Grassroots—In the Context of Massive Societal Upheaval" -- " Overcoming Neoliberal Urbanism" -- "References" -- "Part II: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe" -- "3: Rage and Fire in the French Banlieues" -- " Introduction" -- " Rage in the Era of Urban Age " -- " Banlieues, Not Ghettos" -- " Injuries, Hardship, and Anxieties" -- " Geographies of Grievances" -- " The Political Element in Urban Revolts" -- "References" -- "4: The Neoliberal State and the 2011 English Riots: A Class Analysis" -- " The Structural Violence of Austerity" -- " Symbolic Defamation: The Myth of the 'Broken Society'" -- " Transcending the "Poverty of the Imagination" via the Housing Question" -- " Conclusion: On Inequality" -- "References".

Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor.In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents - such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records-alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos.From the migration out of the South to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century