The conspiracy of capital : law, violence, and American popular radicalism in the age of monopoly / Michael Mark Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Michael Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States--History.

Radicalism.

Conspiracies--United States--History.

Conspiracies.

Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History.

Capitalism.

Political violence--United States--History.

Political violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 336 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]

Summary:

Between the 1880s and 1920s, a broad coalition of American dissidents, which included rabble-rousing cartoonists, civil liberties lawyers, socialist detectives, union organizers, and revolutionary martyrs, forged a culture of popular radicalism that directly challenged an emergent corporate capitalism.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments: Co-conspirators

Introduction: "The Conspiracy of Capital", The Dialectics of Conspiracy in the Age of Monopoly

Chapter 1. "This Worn-Out Piece of Tyranny", Clarence Darrow, the Haymarket Generation, and the Secret History of Conspiracy Law

Chapter 2. "Sensational Writing and a Fight", Dangerous Knowledge, Socialist Detectives, and the Rise and Fall of the Appeal to Reason

Chapter 3. "The Marks of Capital", The Wobblies versus the Invisible Government

Chapter 4. "The Ku Klux Government", Law and Terror in the Red Scare

Conclusion: "Will Fascism Come to America?", Civil Liberties, Antifascism, and the Legacy of the Haymarket Generation

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-316) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-648-3

OCLC:

1074420576