Andrew Wender Cohen

The Racketeer's Progress

Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900 1940

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at economic violence in early twentieth-century Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521124508
• ISBN-10: 0521124506
• Artikelnr.: 27354378

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modernisation and its discontents, 1900
2. Ruling the urban economy
3. The struggle for order
4. The progressive reaction
5. Rhetoric into law
6. Containing mass society and the problem of corruption
7. From conspiracy to racketeering
8. The new deal order from the bottom up
Epilogue: policing the post-war consensus.