Título:
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.
ISBN:
9781421420561
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Información de publicación:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
©2016
Descripción física:
vi, 194 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contenido:
Introduction. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, or heroes and villains of the Gilded Age -- Chapter one. In which Allan Pinkerton created his agency -- Chapter two. In which Pinkerton men become the antiheroes of the middle west -- Chapter three. In which Pinkerton agents infiltrate secret societies -- Chapter four. In which the Pinks serve as a private army for capital -- Chapter five. In which Pinkerton myrmidons invade Homestead -- Chapter six. In which the disgrace of Pinkertonism is subjected to public scrutiny -- Chapter seven. In which the frontier closes and Pinkerton practices are exposed -- Chapter eight. In which the modern state takes on the duties of the Pinkerton agency -- Conclusion. Pinkerton's Inc.
Síntesis:
"O'Hara argues that American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order. Yet the infamy of the Pinkerton agent also gave critics and working communities a villain against which to frame their resistance to the new industrial order. Ultimately, [this book examines] how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged"-- Provided by publisher.
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DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn934937757
Disponibilidad:
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