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Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence /

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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Autore principale: Tager, Jack (Autore)
Altri autori: Rabrenovic, Gordana, 1957- (writer of foreword.), Jones, Ruth Owen (Ricercatore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2019]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Soggetti:
Violence.
Social conditions.
Riots.
Race relations.
Violence > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire.
Violence > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Riots > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Boston (Mass.) > Race relations.
Boston (Mass.) > Social conditions.
Boston (Mass.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sommario:
  • 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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