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Autore: |
O'Hara S. Paul
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Titolo: |
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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Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.28/90973 |
Soggetto topico: | Private investigators - United States - History |
Industrial relations - United States - History | |
Labor - United States - History | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Inventing the Pinkertons, or, spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4214-2057-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811945303321 |
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