| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence. By Jack Tager. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. xii, 289 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-55553-461-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-55553-460-0.)

As Jack Tager demonstrates, Boston has an interesting riot history. The colonial city erupted into collective violence often and for a variety of reasons, including attacks on customs regulations, the exportation of bread, celebrations of Pope Day, and impressment. During the nineteenth century the people of Boston continued to riot, especially over ethnicity and religion. In the twentieth century Boston gained infamy for the anarchy that accompanied the 1919 police strike and for the racial discord that marked the busing controversy in the 1970s. Tager recites the stories of these disturbances and many more, offering rich descriptions of "three centuries of social violence." While this narrative provides an important resource for the study of riots, it left me with two questions. . . .

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