Riots in New Brunswick : Orange nativism and social violence in the 1840s / Scott W. See.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

See, Scott W., 1950-

Series:

Social history of Canada ; 48.

The Social history of Canada, 0085-6207 ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orangemen--New Brunswick--History--19th century.

Orangemen.

Nativism.

Riots--New Brunswick--History--19th century.

Riots.

Irish--New Brunswick--History--19th century.

Irish.

Catholics--New Brunswick--History--19th century.

Catholics.

Social conditions.

History.

New Brunswick--Social conditions--19th century.

New Brunswick.

Physical Description:

x, 266 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Summary:

During the mid to late 1840s, dramatic riots shook the communities of Woodstock, Fredericton, and Saint John. Irish-Catholic immigrants fought Protestant Orangemen, with fists, club, and firearms. The violence resulted in death and destruction unprecedented in the British North American colonies. This book is the first serious historical treatment of the bloody riots and the tangled events that led to them. Scott See shows mid-century New Brunswick roughly awakened from the slumbering provincialism of its post-Loyalist phase by the stirrings of capitalism and by the tidal wave of Irish immigration that followed the potato famine. His main focus is the Loyal Orange Order, the anti-Catholic organization that clashed with the immigrants, many of them impoverished exiles. See presents an extraordinary profile of the Orange Order and concludes provocatively that it was a nativist organization similar to the xenophobic groups active at the time in the United States. Unlike other recent works on the Order, his book emphasizes the importance of the organization's specifically North American concerns, and questions the significance of its connections to Old World sectarianism.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802029442

0802077706

OCLC:

28499778