Dan Hancox is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life, chiefly for the Guardian, but also the New York Times, Vice, The Fader, Dazed & Confused and XXL.

British journalist Dan Hancox, in his new book Multitudes goes much further than his scholarly forebears in the effort to defend the crowd from its defamers. He is an unstinting admirer of crowds and crowd action, not just as a means of social change but as a heady social experience of transcendence.

• Preface: El Carnaval de CádizIntroduction: The Age of the Crowd1. Paris Is Burning: Revolutionary Crowds2. The Nuremberg Spectacle: Authoritarian Crowds3. 'Feral Thugs': Protest and Riot Crowds4. Among the Slum People: Football Crowds5. The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival Crowds6. The Invention of Modern Life: Urban Crowds7. Myths and Scapegoats: Fatal CrowdsConclusion: There to Be a CrowdAcknowledgementsNotesIndex

Dan Hancox is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life, chiefly for the Guardian, but also the New York Times, Vice, The Fader, Dazed & Confused and XXL.

British journalist Dan Hancox, in his new book Multitudes goes much further than his scholarly forebears in the effort to defend the crowd from its defamers. He is an unstinting admirer of crowds and crowd action, not just as a means of social change but as a heady social experience of transcendence.

• Preface: El Carnaval de CádizIntroduction: The Age of the Crowd1. Paris Is Burning: Revolutionary Crowds2. The Nuremberg Spectacle: Authoritarian Crowds3. 'Feral Thugs': Protest and Riot Crowds4. Among the Slum People: Football Crowds5. The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival Crowds6. The Invention of Modern Life: Urban Crowds7. Myths and Scapegoats: Fatal CrowdsConclusion: There to Be a CrowdAcknowledgementsNotesIndex

Dan Hancox is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life, chiefly for the Guardian, but also the New York Times, Vice, The Fader, Dazed & Confused and XXL.

British journalist Dan Hancox, in his new book Multitudes goes much further than his scholarly forebears in the effort to defend the crowd from its defamers. He is an unstinting admirer of crowds and crowd action, not just as a means of social change but as a heady social experience of transcendence.

• Preface: El Carnaval de CádizIntroduction: The Age of the Crowd1. Paris Is Burning: Revolutionary Crowds2. The Nuremberg Spectacle: Authoritarian Crowds3. 'Feral Thugs': Protest and Riot Crowds4. Among the Slum People: Football Crowds5. The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival Crowds6. The Invention of Modern Life: Urban Crowds7. Myths and Scapegoats: Fatal CrowdsConclusion: There to Be a CrowdAcknowledgementsNotesIndex