CHRIS
MULLEN'S
BOOKS
ON
CROWDS
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THEORIES
OF
CROWD
BEHAVIOUR
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Everett Dean Martin, The Behaviour of Crowds, A Psychological
Study, Norton,
New York, 1920. Foreword. The Crowd and the Social Problem
of To-day. How Crowds are Formed. The Crowds and the
Unconscious. The Egoism of the Crowd-Mind. The Crowd a
Creature of Hate. The Absolutism of the Crowd-Mind. The
Psychology of Revolutionary Crowds. The Fruits of Revolution
- new Crowd-Tyrannies from Old. Freedom and Government by
Crowds. Education as a Possible Cure for
Crowd-Thinking.
Gustave
Le Bon, The Crowd
A Study of the Popular Mind, Benn, London 1947, 19th ed., [1896 first UK
translation].
Sir Martin Conway , The Crowd in Peace and War, Longman's Green, London 1915.
Kinds of Crowds. The
Nature of Crowds. Crowd-Units. Crowd Continuity.
Crowd-Instincts. Crowd-Compellers. Crowd exponents.
Crowd-Representatives. Crowd-Organisation. Government and
the Crowd. Liberty and Freedom. Education. Morals. Religion.
Overcrowds. War:Its Cause and Cure. The Contest of Ideals.
The Crowd at War. The Value of the Crowd. The Just
Mean.
Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses Unwin Books London 1961 [1930
Spanish 1st], The
Coming of the Masses. The Rise of the Historic Level. The
Height of the Times. The Increase of life. A Statistical
Fact. The Dissection of the Mass Man begins. Noble Life and
Common Life, or Effort and Inertia. Why the Masses Intervene
in Everything, and why their Intervention is Solely by
Violence. The Primitive and the Technical. Primitivism and
History. The Self-Satisfied Age. The Barbarism of
'Specialisation'. The Greatest Danger - the State. Who Rules
in the World ? We arrive at the Real Question.
Elias Canetti , Crowds and Power, Gollancz London 1962 [1960]. The Crowd.
The Pack. The Pack and
religion. The Crowd in History. The Entrails of Power. The
Survivor. Elements of Power. The Command. Transformation.
Aspects of Power. Rulers and Paranoiacs. Epilogue. Bibliog.
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds, Richard Bentley, London, first edition
1841, and 2nd 1852 [reprint Harmony New York
1980]
Bruce Mazlish , The Leader, the Led and the Psyche, Essays
in Psychohistory Wesleyan University Press, Hanover and
London, 1990.
Mark Harrison, Crowds and History. Mass Phenomena in
English Towns 1790 - 1835, Cambridge University Press,
1988
W.Trotter , Instincts of the Herd in Peace and
War Fisher Unwin, London 1916, sixth impression
by 1921.
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leading the crowd
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Rene Fulop-Muller, Leaders, Dreamers and Rebels, An Account of
the Great Mass-Movements of History and of the Wish-Dreams
that Inspired them, The Viking Press, New York 1935.Translated
from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. See particularly The Birth of the
Masses, pp348 ff. Good illustrations of crowds.
Lord Raglan, The Hero, A Study of Tradition, Myth and
Drama, Methuen,
London, 1936.
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in
History, Chelsea
House, New York, 1983, [ lectures given in 1840]
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addressing
the
crowd
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Edgar R.Jones,
The Art of the
Orator, Edgar R,Jones, Esq., with
a foreword by Lloyd George, Adam and Charles Black, London,
1912. Introductory. The Problem.
Chapter III. The Scientific Basis. Presentation.
Association. Attention. Memory. Imagination, Judgment and
Belief. To Move the Passions. The Influence the Will.
Chapter IV LOGIC. Chapter V Clearness. Strength. Figures of
Speech. Chapter VI Types of Audience.
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CROWDS
AND
THE
CITY
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Walter Benjamin,
ARCADES, Harvard Univ.Press, Cambridge, 1999.
David Reisman with
Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney,
The Lonely Crowd, Yale University
Press, New Haven, 1950.
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CROWDS
AND THE HISTORICAL
EVENT
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George Rude,
The Crowd in the French
Revolution, O Clarendon Press,
Oxford, 1999. Paris on the Eve of the
revolution. The Revolutionary
Crowd in action. (Prelude to
Revolution. July 1798. The March to Versailles. The Massacre
of the Champ de Mars. The Fall of the Monarchy. The Triumph
of the Mountain. Thermidor. Germinal-Prairial. Vendemaire).
The Anatomy of the revolutionary
Crowd (The Composition of
revolutionary crowds 1787 - 1795. The Motives of
revolutionary Crowds. The Generation of Revolutionary
Activity. The 'Revolutionary Crowd' in History.
APPENDIXES. see The Revolutionary Calendar.
Christopher Hibbert,
King Mob, The Story of Lord George
Gordon and the Riots of 1780,
Longman's Green, London 1958.
Stanley Cohen,
FOLK DEVILS 7 MORAL PANICS The
Creation of the Mods and Rockers, Paladin London 1973.
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