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S'està carregant… Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violencede Jack Tager
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FROM THE FOOD UPRISINGS in the early 1700s to the notorious antibusing riots in the mid-1970s, incidents of communal social violence have played a significant role in Boston's history. The remarkable story of Boston's violent past is now told for the first time in this thorough exploration of 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 No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)303.6Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; ViolenceLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (2.83)
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Nonetheless, it is interesting to learn about the different things that lead to civil disturbance over the course of history. In the 18th century people rioted over the lack of food, against customs duties, impressment and the rule of the elite, as well as in “celebration” of Pope’s Day. The next century saw rioting to enforce norms (ex. – closing down brothels), race and anti-Catholic riots (such as the Ursuline Convent and Broad Street), and riots both for and against abolition. The twentieth century saw fewer riots but were bigger in size and effect: the 1919 Police Strike, the ghetto riots of the late 1960s, and the anti-busing riots of the 1970s.
The book is probably not worth reading unless for academic study or for those devoted to the history of Boston.
Favorite Passages:
Boston white ethnics and their leaders had certainly fostered segregation. The plan imposed upon them had nothing to do with promoting educational quality — only integration. It exempted the well-to-do who had fled the city, exacerbated already high racial tensions, and recalled old class warfare between the Yankees and the Irish. On this occasion, however, people of Irish descent were on both sides of the controversy. – p. 192 (