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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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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