The fires of Philadelphia : citizen-soldiers, nativists, and the 1844 riots over the soul of a nation
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New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Status
Nonfiction - Adult Books
305.8009 SCH
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305.8009 SCH
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LC Subjects
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Ethnic relations.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Nativism -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Riots -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Ethnic relations.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Nativism -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Riots -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"...a comprehensive look at the 1844 riots that pitted nativist Protestants in Philadelphia against Irish Catholic immigrants. Positioning the riots as a precursor to the Civil War, Schrag details how leaders of the American Republican Party (a forerunner of the Know Nothing Party), including charismatic newspaperman and future U.S. congressman Lewis Levin, fanned the flames of anti-immigrant resentment by alleging that Irish Catholics were a "menace to American self-government." Allegations spread that Catholics were trying to remove the Protestant bible from public schools, and a nativist rally in the Irish neighborhood of Kensington erupted into a brawl, sparking waves of violence that led to the burning of two Catholic churches and the ransacking of a third, the deaths of dozens of protestors, and a military takeover of the city."--,Publisher's Weekly.
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