Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence - Brossura

Tager, Jack

 
9781555534608: Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence
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ISBN 10: 1555534600 ISBN 13: 9781555534608
Casa editrice: Northeastern Univ Pr, 2000

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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.

Jack Tager explores the more than 100 riots that occurred in the city over a span of nearly three centuries. Drawing on exhaustive research in newspaper archives, Jack Tager revisits both well- and lesser-known episodes, including the grain, impressment, brothel, and Pope Day riots of the eighteenth century; the anti-Catholic, abolition, and draft riots of the nineteenth century; and the Kosher meat, police strike, ghetto, and busing riots of the twentieth century.

Tager identifies the protagonists, highlights their motives and demands, and seeks to determine whether they realized their goals. He also examines how victims suffered at the hands of their fellow citizens, shows how law enforcement responded to the riots, and considers the complex social interactions and tensions that contributed to the uprisings. He finds that most incidents of violent civil disorder were initiated by the powerless lower classes who believed rioting was the only avenue for giving voice to their grievances over political, cultural, religious, or economic oppression.

This vivid portrait of an ever-changing community over time provides a revealing glimpse into peoples' anger, aspirations, and frustrations. It sheds new light on why groups are provoked to take unlawful action in response to unjust conditions, and it opens a fresh vista on the social history of Boston.

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Editore
Northeastern Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1555534600
ISBN 13 
9781555534608
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
289
Contatto del produttore
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ISBN 10:  1555534619 ISBN 13:  9781555534615
Casa editrice: Northeastern Univ Pr, 2000
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