1877: Year of Violence

Author: Robert V. Bruce
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used
Pages: 304

1877: Year of Violence is a vivid history of one of the most turbulent years in post–Civil War America. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Robert V. Bruce chronicles the nationwide railroad strikes, violent labor uprisings, and social unrest that swept the country in 1877.

Through gripping narrative, Bruce shows how economic depression, political corruption, and class tensions ignited the first great national strike—and how the violent clashes between workers, militias, and federal troops foreshadowed future struggles over labor and justice in America.

This book remains an important account of labor history, social conflict, and the forces that shaped the Gilded Age.