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Urban Development, Regional Identity, and the Louisville "Bloody Monday" Riots.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urban Development, Regional Identity, and the Louisville "Bloody Monday" Riots./
Author:	McCargish, C. Michelle.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	276 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-09A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10813284
ISBN:	9780438972780

Urban Development, Regional Identity, and the Louisville "Bloody Monday" Riots.
McCargish, C. Michelle.

Urban Development, Regional Identity, and the Louisville "Bloody Monday" Riots. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 276 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2018.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

Throughout history, urban development and labor demands have profoundly influenced the place of racial and ethnic minorities in society. In antebellum Louisville, the realities of establishing a community not only on the western frontier but also along the boundary between slave and free states shaped the residents' perceptions and goals. As Louisville struggled to find an identity among the competing influences of agrarian and commercial development, slave labor and free labor, North and South, conditions changed locally and nationally. The ties between the regions strained as the nation moved toward disunion. Confronted with the changing circumstances, Louisvillians gradually ascribed different meanings to the existing concepts of identity, allowing for the mistreatment of persons who lacked desirable social and political characteristics. As a result, German and Irish immigrants occupied a third class in society - better off than blacks but not enjoying the full privileges of whites. Eventually, the perceived threat of these marginalized groups led to political and physical opposition to their presence in the city. This study examines how urban development and the quest to create a regional identity created conditions that resulted in the nativist violence known as the "Bloody Monday" riots. The first four chapters examine the progression from a frontier settlement of mostly native-born residents committed to individual opportunity and democratic landholding toward a thriving commercial and manufacturing center, where leaders, willing to blend the philosophies of northern entrepreneurs with the influence of wealthy slaveholders, were determined to achieve success by any means. Chapter five examines the role of slavery in establishing the city and its nascent manufacturing sector, and the ultimate rejection of slavery as unsuitable for a Border City and dangerous to the ambitions of whites. Chapter six examines the German and Irish immigrants who arrived in the 1840s and by the 1850s proved problematic because they were increasingly unwilling to placate the native population assimilate. The final chapter examines how these immigrants aggravated existing tensions over temperance, abolition, regional identity, and the collapse of the Whigs leading to the growth of cultural and political nativism as well as violent unrest.

ISBN: 9780438972780Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Urban Development, Regional Identity, and the Louisville "Bloody Monday" Riots.
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