Sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has clipped corner, overall light shelf wear. ; Essays analyzing the causes of race riots in the United States during the 1960s. ; 9.5" tall; 436 pages.

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Title

Cities under Siege: An Anatomy of the Ghetto Riots, 1964-1968

Publisher

Basic Books, New York

Publication Date

1971

Language

English

ISBN 10

0465011357

ISBN 13

9780465011353

Binding

Hardcover

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Very Good in Good dust jacket

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Introduction
The Newark riot/ NJ Governor's Select Commission on Civil Disorders
Rebellion in Plainfield/ David Boesel, Louis C. Goldberg, Gary T. Marx
The Los Angeles riot of August 1965/ Anthony Oberschall
Milwaukee's national media riot/ Harold R. Wilde
Crisis in Cambridge/ David Boesel, Louis C. Goldberg
Ghetto riots & others: the faces of civil disorder in 1967/ Louis C. Goldberg
Civil disorder & the agents of social control/ Gary T. Marx
The administration of justice in the wake of the Detroit Civil Disorder of July 1967/ Michigan Law Review
Criminal justice in extremis: administration of justice during the April 1968 Chicago disorder/ Univ. of Chicago Law Review
Whitewash over Watts/ Robert Blauner
White on black: the riot commission & the rhetoric of reform/ Andrew Kopkind
Official interpretations of racial riots/ Allan Silver
Violence in the cities: a historical overview/ Richard C. Wade Black violence in the 20th century: a study in rhetoric & retaliation/ August Meier, Elliott Rudwick
White institutions & black rage/ David Boesel, Richard Berk, W. Eugene Groves, Bettye K. Eidson, Peter H. Rossi
An analysis of the ghetto riots/ David Boesel
The new ghetto man: a review of recent empirical studies/ Nathan Caplan
Black attitudes toward the political system in the aftermath of the Watts insurrection/ David O. Sears
White public opinion in an age of disorder/ Bettye K. Eidson
Urban revolts & the future of American cities/ Peter H. Rossi
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