Author: New York Association for the Protection of American Industry
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Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Mark Lause
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786631970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of “rugged individualism,” independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes. Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a “beef bonanza” that attracted international capital. Business interests approached the market with the expectation that it would have the same freedom to brutally impose its will as it had exercised on native peoples and the recently emancipated African Americans. These assumptions contributed to a series of bitter and violent “range wars,” which broke out from Texas to Montana and framed the appearance of labor conflicts in the region. These social tensions stirred a series of political insurgencies that became virtually endemic to the American West of the Gilded Age. Mark A. Lause explores the relationship between these neglected labor conflicts, the “range wars,” and the third-party movements. The Great Cowboy Strike subverts American mythology to reveal the class abuses and inequalities that have blinded a nation to its true history and nature

Author: Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Mark A. Lause
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause’s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based much of its post-Civil War revival on shattering third parties and gathering up the pieces. Lause provides an in-depth look at Carsey’s tactics and successes against the backdrop of enormous changes in political life. As Carsey used a carefully crafted public persona to burrow into unsuspecting organizations, the forces he represented worked to create a political system that turned voters into disengaged civic consumers and cemented America’s ever-fractious two-party system.

Author: Princeton University. Library
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Author: Chester Leonard Barrows
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Evarts, who is considered one of the greatest attorneys the country has known, was a New Englander who spent most of his active life in New York and Washington. He was a charter member of the Republican party, a supporter of Lincoln, secretary of state, United States senator, and the defender of many historical decisions. To read his life is to read history in the making. Originally published in 1941. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.