The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War

New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Book Club Edition. 363, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliographical essay, index, small tears and creasing to top edge rear DJ. Board corners worn, lower rear board corner threadbare. For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. What began as a demonstration against the first federal draft soon expanded into a sweeping assault against the local institutions and personnel of the Republican Party as well as a race riot. Condition: very good, good.

Keywords: Draft Riots, New York City, Civil War, Race Riots, Immigrants, Race Relations, Ethnic Relations, Class Relations, Organized Labor

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Price: $36.00

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