Multitudes - How Crowds Made the Modern World

In pursuit of the liberating powers of the crowd

List of contents

Preface: El Carnaval de Cádiz

Introduction: The Age of the Crowd
1. Paris Is Burning: Revolutionary Crowds
2. The Nuremberg Spectacle: Authoritarian Crowds
3. ‘Feral Thugs’: Protest and Riot Crowds
4. Among the Slum People: Football Crowds
5. The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival Crowds
6. The Invention of Modern Life: Urban Crowds
7. Myths and Scapegoats: Fatal Crowds
Conclusion: There to Be a Crowd

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

About the author

Dan Hancox is a journalist who has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, Independent, Frieze, New Inquiry, National, Dazed & Confused, Q magazine, Mute and The Wire. He is the author of two ebooks: Kettled Youth and Utopia and the Valley of Tears.

Summary

In pursuit of the liberating powers of the crowd

Product details

• Authors: Dan Hancox, Hancox Dan
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9781804294482
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-448-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 350 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, Social, group or collective psychology, Political science and theory