Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology - Couverture rigide

University Of Wisconsin Press

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0299194701 ISBN 13 : 9780299194703

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Synopsis

During the First World War it was the task of the U.S. Department of Justice, using the newly passed Espionage Act and its later Sedition Act amendment, to prosecute and convict those who opposed America s entry into the conflict. In Unsafe for Democracy, historian William H. Thomas Jr. shows that the Justice Department did not stop at this official charge but went much further paying cautionary visits to suspected dissenters, pressuring them to express support of the war effort, or intimidating them into silence. At times going undercover, investigators tried to elicit the unguarded comments of individuals believed to be a threat to the prevailing social order.In this massive yet largely secret campaign, agents cast their net wide, targeting isolationists, pacifists, immigrants, socialists, labor organizers, African Americans, and clergymen. The unemployed, the mentally ill, college students, schoolteachers, even schoolchildren, all might come under scrutiny, often in the context of the most trivial and benign activities of daily life. Delving into numerous reports by Justice Department detectives, Thomas documents how, in case after case, they used threats and warnings to frighten war critics and silence dissent. This early government crusade for wartime ideological conformity, Thomas argues, marks one of the more dubious achievements of the Progressive Era and a development that resonates in the present day.
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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Handler is professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is author of Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec, and editor of Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299194701
• ISBN 13: 9780299194703
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 297
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