The Bowery Boys :street corner radicals and the politics of rebellion
- 作者: Adams, Peter,
- 出版: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers 2005.
- 稽核項: xxii, 168 pages :illustrations, portraits ;25 cm.
- 標題: Politics and government , New York (N.Y.) Social conditions -- 19th century. , Gangs New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century. , Gangs , Bowery Boys (Gang) , New York (N.Y.) , Social conditions , New York (N.Y.) Politics and government -- 19th century. , History
- ISBN: 0275985385 , 9780275985387
- 附註: 105年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫主題:文學I:戲曲與表演文化 Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index. The Bowery Boys' New York -- The Bowery Boys: shirtless and unterrified -- The Bowery Boys': radical in everything -- On to Providence, b'hoys -- Workies, locofocos, and the subterranean masses -- Go west young proletary -- The Bowery boy goes to Washington -- Boss rule and the eclipse of the Bowery Boys.
- 摘要: "In 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, a prohibition on child labor, and to restore dignity to the city's growing number of industrial workers."--Jacket.
- 系統號: 005267559
- 資料類型: 圖書
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In 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.
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