Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor / / edited by James M. O'Toole and David Quigley ; [new foreword by Julie de Chantal]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524688903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Northeastern University Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 284 pages)
• Soggetti: Social conditions; Politics and government; History; Electronic books.; Massachusetts Boston; Boston (Mass.) Politics and government; Boston (Mass.) Social conditions; Boston (Mass.) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reprint of 2004 edition with new foreword.
• Nota di contenuto: O'Connor's Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- "A long train of hideous consequences" : Boston, capital punishment, and the transformation of Republicanism, 1780-1805 / Alan Rogers -- Power and social responsibility : entrepreneurs and the Black community in Antebellum Boston / Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton -- The secret world of radical publishers : the case of Thayer and Eldridge of Boston / Albert J. von Frank -- "Lawless and unprincipled" : women in Boston's Civil War draft riot / Judith Ann Giesberg -- Portrait of a parish : race, ethnicity, and class in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 / James M. O'Toole -- Charles Sumner and the political cultures of reconstruction in Massachusetts / David Quigley -- The Irish question and Boston politics / Lawrence W. Kennedy -- Contested bodies and souls : immigrant converts in Boston, 1890-1940 / Kristen A. Petersen -- "A strong argument for juries" : the saga of Willett v. Herrick / Mark I. Gelfand -- The politics of sex and race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-; 1940 / Sarah Deutsch -- The last hurrah and the pluralist vision of American politics / James J. Connolly -- The failure of Catholic interracialism in Boston before busing / William Leonard -- The Catholic Church and the desegregation of Boston's public schools / James E. Glinski.