Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell

When the State Trembled

How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

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Produktbeschreibung

This book recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Newly discovered correspondence illuminates the account of Canada's most famous strike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781442611160
• ISBN-10: 1442611162
• Artikelnr.: 29955538

Autorenporträt

By Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Permitted by Authority of the Strike Committee15 - 19 May
2. Who? Who? Who-oo?
3. Seven Hundred and Four Years Ago at Runnymede
4. The Anointing of A.J. Andrews
5. The Flag-Flapping Stage
6. To Reach the Leaders in this Revolutionary Movement
7. Time to Act
8. Enough Evidence to Convict the Whole Strike Committee
9. The Road through Bloody Saturday
10. The Only Way to Deal with Bolshevism
11. They are all dangerous: Immigration Hearings
12. They Started the Fire: Preliminary Hearing
14. Duty to God, Country, and Family: The Russell Trial
Epilogue: Echo
Notes
Index