The Baltimore Riots of 1812 and the Breakdown of the Anglo-American Mob Tradition

Gilje, Paul A.

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“…At the beginning of the War of 1812, for example, dissenting newspapers were mobbed. In the most famous example, involving the Baltimore Federal-Republican, the mob acted several times, first destroying the printing press and driving the newspaper out of town, and then a month later brutally attacking a group of Federalists who had brought the newspaper back to Baltimore (40,96). pocket of liberalism that safeguarded the major parties.…”

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Violence Against the Press in U.S. History

Nerone

1990

J Communication

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Fourpatterns of ytolent actid@ against media and kbdr personnel-peronal~aa& tmzjorltarian, anxigmup, and discourse and cbanging dejEnttiOrts of a cuhm o f tbe Boundaries to public discourse are often set by law and enforced by the state. Because they can be traced through records of legislation and police and judicial action, such limits have been studied extensively (59,89,93,94). But the apparent clarity of these limits is misleading. Boundaries that seem strict on paper may be loosely controlled. Laws are often ignored or are established in terrorem: to intimidate potential offenders, not to punish existing ones (112); and the state is often powerless to enforce laws (92). Nor is the absence of written law unambiguous. There are other, less formal agencies of regulation: not the state but the marketplace ( 4 , 20); not the courts but professional ideologies (30,39,103), political influence (6), and, in extreme cases, the mob. With so many other mechanisms of control, the law can afford to be permissive.Historically, boundaries to public utterance through the media have been set, explained, and justified by what we might call the culture of the press. This culture might best be conceived as a series of congruent layers of different but overlapping ideas and populations, from theorists to press professionals and insiders to the public, each with its own version of the culture of the press suited to its own situations and interests.How can we recover the culture of the press? Articulations of ideas are useful but insufficient; what people have said or written tells us some but not all of what they have believed, and key phrases like "the liberty of the press" or "the people's right to know" have been used variously and opportunistically. Furthermore, articulate statements are weighted toward theorists at the expense of the public, who are much less likely to write down what they think about the media.In highly literate milieus the assumption is unquestioned that sign$cant communication is conveyed by word, and above all by printed word. Yet one i?lcWV-bf?@ us locate tbe boundia&s OfpUbHcOne also might gauge ideas by practice. As Rhys Isaac has noted,

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Political Rhetoric in Wartime: A Case Study from 1812

Rudanko

2021

Fallacies and Free Speech

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Axis Point of American Industrialism

Zerzan¹

1986

Int Rev of Soc His

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The 1820's constituted a watershed in United States life. By the end of that decade, about ten years after the last of the English Luddite risings had been suppressed, industrialism secured its decisive American victory; by the end of the 1830's all of its cardinal features were definitively present. The many overt threats to the coherence of emerging industrial capitalism, the ensemble of forms of resistance to its hegemony, were blunted at this time and forced into the current of that participation so vital to modern domination. In terms of technology, work, politics, sexuality, culture, and the whole fabric of ordinary life, the struggles of an earlier, relative autonomy, which threatened both old and new forms of authority, fell short, and a dialectic of domestication, so familiar to us today, broke through. The reactions engendered in the face of the new dynamic in this epoch of its arrival seem, by the way, to offer some implicit parallels to present trends as technological civilization likely enters its terminal crisis: the answers of progress, now anything but new or promising, encounter a renewed legitimation challenge that can be informed, even inspired, by understanding the past.

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The Baltimore Riots of 1812 and the Breakdown of the Anglo-American Mob Tradition

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Violence Against the Press in U.S. History

Political Rhetoric in Wartime: A Case Study from 1812

Axis Point of American Industrialism

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