Rebecca Hill

Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History

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Produktbeschreibung

This very ambitious study reads the American Left by way of its defense campaigns for a range of left-wing heroes including the abolitionists, communists, anarchists and the Panthers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342809
• ISBN-10: 0822342804
• Artikelnr.: 23881460

Autorenporträt

Rebecca N. Hill is Director of the American Studies Master of Arts Program and Associate Professor of History at Kennesaw State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. John Brown: The Left's Great Man 27
2. Haymarket 69
3. Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense: Intersections and Contradictions 112
4. No Wives or Family Encumber Them: Sacco and Vanzetti 162
5. The Communist Party and the Defense Tradition from Scottsboro to the
Rosenbergs 209
6. Born Guilty: George Jackson and the Return of the Lumpen Hero 265
Conclusion 315
Notes 323
Index 398