Annotated Bibliography

1/8/08 Ryon Willis

Bible Riots
Feldberg Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.
This source talks about how Irish Catholics were the targets of Nativists aggression, which was torching two of their churches a mob pillaged and wrecked the homes of Irish Catholic residents who ran away with anything they could carry.

Geffen M. Elizabeth,” Violence in Philadelphia in the 1840’s and 1850’s.”
Pennsylvania History 36 (1969): 381-410.
This source also talks about how mobs attacked Irish weavers in Kensington after displaying a banner outside their workplace. It also points out how African Americans were also targets through the 1830's like the anti-slavery activists.

Johnson R. David, Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the
Development of the American Police, 1800-1887. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1979.
This site talks about how police in this time period created night watch for criminals, fires, and drunks and how thousands of drunks, vagrants, and disorderly were beaten for not "moving along". So as a result beggars and kids playing in the streets ran away when the police came.

Johnson R. David,” Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840–1970,” in The Peoples of
Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790–1940, Ed.
Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1973: pp. 89–110.
This source talks about how the disgruntled laborers resorted to violence during rapid industrialization in the 1820's. So rioting to them countered the mechanization of their trade voicing their anger at the growth of manufacturing and surplus threatened to lower their wages.

Lane Roger, Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-
Century Philadelphia. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
This source talks about how the usefulness of suicide, accident, and homicide measures to human behavior, which is violence and how it’s connected to the impact of population growth, and other behaviors.