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The Haymarket Conspiracy. Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
Timothy Messer-Kruse
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Description for The Haymarket Conspiracy. Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
Paperback. A bold reconsideration of the roots and realities of American anarchism Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the United States in the 1880s. A new history of the transatlantic origins of American anarchism, this study thoroughly debunks the dominant narrative through which most historians interpret the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886–87. Challenging the view that there was no evidence connecting the eight convicted workers to the bomb throwing at the Haymarket rally, Timothy Messer-Kruse examines police investigations and trial proceedings that reveal the hidden transatlantic networks, the violent subculture, and the misunderstood beliefs of Gilded Age anarchists. Messer-Kruse ... Read more
The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the United States in the 1880s. A new history of the transatlantic origins of American anarchism, this study thoroughly debunks the dominant narrative through which most historians interpret the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886–87. Challenging the view that there was no evidence connecting the eight convicted workers to the bomb throwing at the Haymarket rally, Timothy Messer-Kruse examines police investigations and trial proceedings that reveal the hidden transatlantic networks, the violent subculture, and the misunderstood beliefs of Gilded Age anarchists. Messer-Kruse ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078606
SKU
V9780252078606
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About Timothy Messer-Kruse
Timothy Messer-Kruse is professor and chair of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University. His previous books include The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age and Race Relations in the United States, 1980–2000.
Reviews for The Haymarket Conspiracy. Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
"A valuable and unsentimental account of a salient episode in labor and leftist history."
American Historical Review "Timothy Messer-Kruse convincingly argues that the Haymarket bombing of 1886 was a conspiracy devised by elements of the Chicago anarchist movement. This even-keeled analysis is a welcome addition to the study of anarchism."
Tom Goyens, author of Beer and Revolution: German Anarchists in New ... Read more
American Historical Review "Timothy Messer-Kruse convincingly argues that the Haymarket bombing of 1886 was a conspiracy devised by elements of the Chicago anarchist movement. This even-keeled analysis is a welcome addition to the study of anarchism."
Tom Goyens, author of Beer and Revolution: German Anarchists in New ... Read more