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The Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War I : using wartime loyalty laws for revenge and profit /
Donalson focuses on how ordinary citizens used the Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War I for personal benefit and profit. He shows how the acts were used particularly but not exclusively against persons of German ancestry to settle family and neighborhood quarrels, workplace disputes, and polit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Pub.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Recht und Gesellschaft.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Donalson focuses on how ordinary citizens used the Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War I for personal benefit and profit. He shows how the acts were used particularly but not exclusively against persons of German ancestry to settle family and neighborhood quarrels, workplace disputes, and political differences. These acts, intended to unify the nation in a time of war, instead undermined the concepts of free speech and presumption of innocence, and started the United States on the path of totalitarianism where any word or action could be interpreted as?disloyal? and result in federal act. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 197 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781593326241 1593326246 |