Author: Union League Club of New York (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Report of the Committee on Municipal Reform, Especially in the City of New York
Author: Union League Club of New York (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
How the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob RiisPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 145850042X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Monied Metropolis
Author: Sven BeckertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
The New York City Draft Riots
Author: Iver BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community. In the end, at least 105 people were killed, making the draft riots the most violent insurrection in American history. In this vividly written book, Iver Bernstein tells the compelling story of the New York City draft riots. He details how what began as a demonstration against the first federal draft soon expanded into a sweeping assault against the local institutions and personnel of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party as well as a grotesque race riot. Bernstein identifies participants, dynamics, causes and consequences, and demonstrates that the "winners" and "losers" of the July 1863 crisis were anything but clear, even after five regiments rushed north from Gettysburg restored order. In a tour de force of historical detection, Bernstein shows that to evaluate the significance of the riots we must enter the minds and experiences of a cast of characters--Irish and German immigrant workers, Wall Street businessmen who frantically debated whether to declare martial law, nervous politicians in Washington and at City Hall. Along the way, he offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics: Civil War society and politics, patterns of race, ethnic and class relations, the rise of organized labor, styles of leadership, philanthropy and reform, strains of individualism, and the rise of machine politics in Boss Tweed's Tammany regime. An in-depth study of one of the most troubling and least understood crises in American history, The New York City Draft Riots is the first book to reveal the broader political and historical context--the complex of social, cultural and political relations--that made the bloody events of July 1863 possible.
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
City Politics
Author: Edward C. Banfield, James Q. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author: Massachusetts
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