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1 online resource (1 online resource xii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License |
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Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. |
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Reprint of 2001 edition with new foreword. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index. |
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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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
Summary |
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' 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. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2001. With a new foreword by Gordana Rabrenovic. |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
Subject |
Violence. |
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Social conditions. |
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Riots. |
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Race relations. |
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Violence -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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Massachusetts -- Boston. |
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History. |
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Riots -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
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Boston (Mass.) -- History.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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Added Author |
Rabrenovic, Gordana, 1957- writer of foreword.
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Jones, Ruth Owen, researcher.
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Project Muse.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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ISBN |
9781555538859 |
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1555538851 |
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