Riots in New Brunswick : Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s / Scott W. See.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

See, Scott W., author.

Contributor:

Knox, John, Contributor.

Series:

Heritage

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.

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

New Brunswick.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part One: The Context

Introduction

1. New Brunswick in mid-century

2. Communities in transition: Saint John, Fredericton, and Woodstock

Part Two: The Protagonists

3. The Irish-Catholics: Immigration and response

4. The Orange Order: Institutionalized nativism

Part Three: The Riots

5. The hinterland: The Woodstock riot of 1847

6. The capital: Confrontations in Fredericton

7. The ports: Orange-Green disturbances in Saint John and Portland

8. Social violence peaks: The York Point riot of 1849

Part Four: The Perspective

9. Aftermath: The pacific fifties

10. A tumultuous decade

Appendix A: 'The Battle Of York Point, 1849, St. John N.B.' / Knox, John

Appendix B: New Brunswick Immigration And Primary Orange Lodges, 1831-55

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8016-9

OCLC:

1114876178