Capital's terrorists : Klansmen, lawmen, and employers in the long nineteenth century / Chad E. Pearson.
"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: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| 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 (314 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798890863072 |