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O'Hara S. Paul |
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Inventing the Pinkertons, or, spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs : being a story of the nation's most famous (and infamous) detective agency / / S. Paul O'Hara |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Private investigators - United States - History |
Industrial relations - United States - History |
Labor - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Chapter Three. In which Pinkerton agents infiltrate secret societiesA noxious weed of Ireland; Among the assassins!; Strikers, communists, tramps, and detectives; Conclusion: Anarchists and the detectives; Chapter Four. In which the Pinks serve as a private army for capital; The "Pinkerton Force" or detectives on trial; "Pinkerton is neither more nor less than the head of a band of mercenaries"; The Knights of Labor and the Pinkerton roughs; Conclusion: Anarchists and the detectives; Chapter Five. In which Pinkerton myrmidons invade Homestead; The Great Battle of Homestead |
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