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Capital's Terrorists : Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century /

"Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out of workplaces. This book suggests that the birth of law and order politics as we know it can be found...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pearson, Chad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Keeping them in their place: labor problems, management, and vigilantism in the Reconstruction South
  • Late nineteenth-century labor unrest, the origins of the law-and-order leagues, and J. West Goodwin
  • Management militarization, vigilante traditions, and incarceration in Northern Idaho, 1890-1900
  • The new solution: anti-labor kidnapping, the legacy of the Second Seminole War, and D.B. McKay
  • Birth of the Citizens' Alliances, the persistence of law and order, and mythmaking in the early twentieth century
  • The law or popular justice: Owen Wister and the defense of class violence from above.