American Mobbing, 1828-1861 - Toward Civil War

Zusatztext ...David Grimsted has made a major contribution to the historiography of mob violence in the nineteenth-century United States. His book illuminates how often antebellum Americans negotiated their differences through rioting. More importantly it shows the price that this nation has paid for engaging in such behavior....American Mobbing is required reading for those interested in Civil War causation and the history of mob violence in the United States. Klappentext American Mobbing, 1828-1861 is a comprehensive history of mob violence in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions. In the South anti-slavery rioting was widely tolerated and effectively encouraged Southern support for slavery. In the North, both pro-slavery and anti-slavery riots were put down, often violently, by the authorities, resulting usually in a public reaction against slavery. Grimsted thus demonstrates that mob violence was a major cause of the social split that led to the Civil War. Zusammenfassung This text provides a history of mob violence in antebellum America. It describes how the riots provoked by the issue of slavery produced very different reactions in the North and South, demonstrating how mob violence was a major cause of the social split that led to the Civil War.

Product details

• Authors: David Grimsted, David (Associate Professor Grimsted, Grimsted David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.1998
• EAN: 9780195117073
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511707-3
• No. of pages: 392
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