In this book Michael A.
Gordon is Associate Professor of History and Co-Coordinator of the Public History Specialization at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee..
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Gordon concludes by showing how the riots sparked a reform movement that toppled Tweed from power and led to the restructuring of City politics in the 1870s.
These visions were enmeshed n the turbulent ideological and Political confrontations arising from industrialization and newly found immigrant power under New York City\'s notorious mayor, William Marcy Boss Tweed.
Rather, both years bear witness to a struggle between two profoundly different visions of the promise of America: a re-creation of European social classes or a form of life liberated from the constraints and stratifications of the Old World.
He maintains that they stemmed from more than religious hatred or generations of oppression in Ireland.
Reconstructing the events of July 12 in those years, Gordon provides a riveting and richly detailed account of the riots.
The Violence of 1870 left eight people dead; the following year, more than sixty died.
On July 12 of both years, groups of Irish Catholics clashed with Irish Protestants marching to commemorate the victory of 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne that confirmed the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.
Gordon examines the causes and consequences of the tragic and bloody Orange Riots that rocked New York City in 1870 and 1871.
In this book Michael A
