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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 in nineteenth-century campaigns of organized terror against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines conducted by Klansmen, lawmen, vigilantes, and union busters"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages): illustrations (black and white. |
| ISBN: | 9781469671758 |