TY - BOOK ID - 77996464 TI - The New York City draft riots : their significance for American society and politics in the age of the Civil War PY - 1991 SN - 0199923434 1423737466 1601298412 1280441151 0198021712 9781423737469 9780195071306 0195071301 0195071301 0197714986 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863. KW - Draft Riot, 1863 KW - Riots KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77996464 AB - In this vividly written text, Iver Bernstein tells the compelling story of the New York City draft riots. He details how what began as a demonstration against the first federal draft soon expanded into a sweeping assault against the local institutions and personnel of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party as well as a grotesque race riot. He identifies participants, dynamics, causes and consequences, and demonstrates that the 'winners' and 'losers' of the July 1863 crisis were anything but clear, even after five regiments rushed north from Gettysburg ro restore order. ER -