Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850 [electronic Resource]

Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850 [electronic Resource]
Author: Lemuel 1793-1859 Shattuck
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013614866

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The Armies of the Streets

The Armies of the Streets
Author: Adrian Cook
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813162556

In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for the recurring civil disorders in nineteenth-century New York: the appalling living conditions, the corruption of the civic government, and the geographical and economic factors that led up to the social upheaval.

This Errant Lady

This Errant Lady
Author: Jane Franklin
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0642107491

Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.