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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pearson, Chad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 défense of class violence from above.