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Item: STREETS, RAILROADS, AND THE GREAT STRIKE OF 1877 by David O. Stowell.
1st Edition!!!
181 page softback book (23cm x 15.5cm) published by Chicago 1999.
Content: This is a mint condition 1999 1st edition of Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 by David O. Stowell.
Rear cover reads:
For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history.
Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labour strike that targeted the railroads, David Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban origins of the Strike in three upstate New York cities-Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. He finds that locomotives rumbled through crowded urban spaces, sending panicked horses and their wagons careening through streets. Hundreds of people were killed and injured with appalling regularity at dangerous railroad crossings. The trains also disrupted street traffic and obstructed certain forms of commerce. The Great Strike, Stowell argues, was not simply an uprising fuelled by workplace grievances. Rather, it was a grave reflection of one of the most direct and damaging ways many people experienced the Industrial Revolution in their streets and neighbourhoods.
"The importance of this book lies not only in a fresh view of a crucial American event but also in a broadening of what violent protest can entail. This is a`History from the Bottom Up." - William W. Freehling, author of Slavery, the Civil War and the Reintegration of American History.
"In Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877, David Stowell draws our attention to a moment in time when the railroads were not the backdrop of urban life but rather the intruder into that life. Clearly and effectively written, this is an important book that demands a long overdue rethinking of the categories of nineteenth-century American labour history." - Nick Salvatore, author of We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber.
David O. Stowell is assistant professor of history at Keene State College.
With illustrations, maps & photographs.
Additional information: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
Condition: Mint Condition.
Collectable 1st Edition!!!
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