Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence /

Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence / / Jack Tager ; picture researcher, Ruth Owen Jones ; [new foreword by Gordana Rabrenovic].

From the food uprisings in the early 1700s to the notorious anti-busing riots in the mid-1970s, incidents of communal social violence have played a significant role in Boston's history. This vivid portrait of an ever-changing community over time provides a revealing glimpse into peoples' a...

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VerfasserIn:
Tager, Jack,
TeilnehmendeR:
Rabrenovic, Gordana, 1957-
Jones, Ruth Owen,
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource xii, 289 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:
  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
  • Reprint of 2001 edition with new foreword.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Eighteenth-Century setting
  • A variety of Riots: Food, Customs, Antielite, and Pope Day Riots
  • The Impressment Riot of 1747
  • Antebellum Boston: Norm Enforcement, Race, and Abolition Riots
  • Anti-Catholic Rioting in Antebellum Boston: The Ursuline Convent and the Broad Street Riots
  • Anti-Catholic Tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863
  • The 1919 Police Strike Riots
  • Ghetto Riots, 1967-1968
  • Antibusing Riots, Fall 1974
  • Antibusing Riots, 1975-1976
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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