Author : Adrian Cook
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813162556
Book 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.