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The fires of Philadelphia : citizen-soldiers, nativists, and the 1844 riots over the soul of a nation /

"...[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...

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Main Author: Schrag, Zachary M., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Edition:First Pegasus Books edition.
Subjects and Genres:
1800-1899
Riots > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Irish Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Nativism > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Ethnic relations.
Irish Americans.
Nativism.
Riots.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) > History > 19th century.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) > Ethnic relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Ethnic relations.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Kensington.
History.
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Call Number: UPA/Ph F 158.44 .S36 2021
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