Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780813151823
Pub Date: July 2014
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Price:
£27.00
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Description:
In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for the recurring civil disorders in nineteenth-century New York: the appalling living conditions, the corruption of the civic government, and the geographical and economic factors that led up to the social upheaval.