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Bowery Boys : Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion by Peter Adams (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-100275985385
ISBN-139780275985387
eBay Product ID (ePID)43933231
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Publication NameBowery Boys : Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 19th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorPeter Adams
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2004-028071
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Did these leaders speak much to or for American workers? The evidence make clear only that they speak to historians in search of an American radical tradition."- American Studies, "[A] good story … we emerge at the end with greatly increased knowledge of the Democratic Party, the Whig Party, Tammany Hall and the social conditions of New York in the middle of the nineteenth century." - Journal of American Studies, "Did these leaders speak much to or for American workers? The evidence make clear only that they speak to historians in search of an American radical tradition." American Studies, "Did these leaders speak much to or for American workers? The evidence make clear only that they speak to historians in search of an American radical tradition." - American Studies, "[A] good story ... we emerge at the end with greatly increased knowledge of the Democratic Party, the Whig Party, Tammany Hall and the social conditions of New York in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- Journal of American Studies "Did these leaders speak much to or for American workers? The evidence make clear only that they speak to historians in search of an American radical tradition." -- American Studies
TitleLeadingThe
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal364.1/06/6097471
Table Of ContentThe Bowery Boys: Shirtless and Unterrified The Bowery Boys: Radical in Everything On to Providence: B'hoys Workies, Loco Focos, and the Subterranean Masses Go West Young Proletary The Bowery Boy Goes to Washington Boss Rule and the Eclipse of the Bowery Boys Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York. This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emerged as part urban legend and part street fighters for the city's legions of young workers. Poverty and despair led to a gang culture that was easily politicized, especially under the leadership of Mike Walsh who led a distinct faction of the Bowery Boys that engaged in the violent, almost anarchic, politics of the city during the 1840s and 1850s. Amid the toppled ballot boxes and battles for supremacy on the streets, many New Yorkers feared Walsh's gang was at the frontline of a European-style revolution. A radical and immensely popular voice in antebellum New York, Walsh spoke in the unvarnished language of class conflict. Admired by Walt Whitman and feared by Tammany Hall, Walsh was an original, wildly unstable character who directed his aptly named Spartan Band against the economic and political elite of New York City and New England. As a labor organizer, state legislator, and even U.S. Congressman, the leader of the Bowery Boys fought for shorter working hours, the right to strike, free land for settlers on the American frontier, against child labor, and to restore dignity to the city's growing number of industrial workers.
LC Classification NumberHV6439
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