Tag: Riots

December 27, 2024

Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

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Free Download Naomi Hossain, Patta Scott-Villiers, "Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 036735215X, 1138040169 | PDF | pages: 215 | 31.8 mb
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of food for people on low incomes.

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September 15, 2024

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America

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Free Download Victoria W. Wolcott, "Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0812223284 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 3.1 mb
Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement parks, teenagers congregated at forbidden swimming pools, and church groups picnicked at white-only parks. But too often white mobs attacked those who dared to transgress racial norms. In Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters, Victoria W. Wolcott tells the story of this battle for access to leisure space in cities all over the United States.

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January 16, 2024

The New York City Draft Riots Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War

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Free Download The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War by Iver Bernstein
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0195071301 | 384 Pages | PDF | 25.1 MB
For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community. In the end, at least 105 people were killed, making the draft riots the most violent insurrection in American history.

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