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 theblack co...

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1. Verfasser:	Bernstein, Iver
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1991, ©1990.
Schlagworte:	1861-1865 Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863. Émeutes de la conscription, New York, N.Y., 1863. HISTORY > State & Local. HISTORY > State & Local > General. New York (N.Y.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) New York (State) > New York History
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Zusammenfassung:	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 theblack 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'sRepublican 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 tourde 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 inWashington 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 ofmachine 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 July1863 possible.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (ix, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-347) and index.
ISBN:	1423737466 9781423737469 9780195071306 0195071301