The Haymarket tragedy / Paul Avrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avrich, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism--United States--History--19th century.

Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (582 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1984]

Summary:

This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause célèbre in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most unjust in the annals of American jurisprudence. Paul Avrich shows how eight anarchists who were blamed for the bombing at a workers' meeting near Chicago's Haymarket Square became the focus of a variety of passionately waged struggles.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Illustrations

Preface

PART I: ALBERT PARSONS

1. An American Boyhood

2. Labor Agitator

3. The Great Strike

4. From Socialism to Anarchism

PART II: THE ANARCHISTS

5. Social Revolutionaries

6. The Pittsburgh Congress

7. The International Working People's Association

8. The American Group

9. August Spies

10. Counterculture

11. The Intransigents

12. Cult of Dynamite

PART III: HAYMARKET

13. On the Eve

14. The Bomb

15. Red Scare

16. The Fugitive

17. The Trial

18. The Verdict

PART IV: THE ORDEAL

19. The Appeal

20. Convicts

21. Governor Oglesby

22. Springfield

23. The Scaffold

PART V: THE AFTERMATH

24. Repercussions

25. The Pardon

26. The Legacy

27. The Bombthrower

28. Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [517]-520) and index.

ISBN:

9780691047119

0691047111

OCLC:

1273307055