Understanding Rioting in Postwar Urban America
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JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY / March 2000 Thompson / RIOTING IN POSTWAR URBAN AMERICA REVIEW ESSAY UNDERSTANDING RIOTING IN POSTWAR URBAN AMERICA NANCY ABLEMAN and JOHN LIE, Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, xv, 272 pp., notes, bibliography, index, $29.95 cloth. MARK BALDASSARE, ed., The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994, xiii, 255 pp., maps, tables, references, $66.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. DENNIS E. GALE, Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996, xii, 228 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index, $48.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. PAUL A. GILJE, Rioting in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996, xi, 240 pp., appendix, notes, index, $39.95 cloth. ROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS, ed., Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising. New York: Routledge, 1993, viii, 276 pp., notes, index, $16.95 paper. ANN K. JOHNSON, Urban Ghetto Riots, 1965-1968: A Comparison of Soviet and American Press Coverage. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1996, 209 pp., notes, bibliography, $28.00 cloth. Scholars of early modern and modern Europe were pioneers in the study of crowd behavior, mobs, and rioting. Writing in the 1960s, historians like George Rude and Eric