The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly - Couverture souple

Cohen, Michael Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1625344015 ISBN 13 : 9781625344014

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2019

Synopsis

Between the 1880s and 1920s, a broad coalition of American dissidents, which included rabble-rousing cartoonists, civil liberties lawyers, socialist detectives, union organizers, and revolutionary martyrs, forged a culture of popular radicalism that directly challenged an emergent corporate capitalism. Monopoly capitalists and their allies in government responded by expanding conspiracy laws and promoting conspiracy theories in an effort to destroy this anti-capitalist movement. The result was an escalating class conflict in which each side came to view the other as a criminal conspiracy.

In this detailed cultural history, Michael Mark Cohen argues that a legal, ideological, and representational politics of conspiracy contributed to the formation of a genuinely revolutionary mass culture in the United States, starting with the 1886 Haymarket bombing. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern business corporation and national security state through a comprehensive reassessment of the role of conspiracy laws and conspiracy theories in American social movements.

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À propos de l'auteur

MICHAEL MARK COHEN is associate teaching professor in American studies and African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625344015
• ISBN 13: 9781625344014
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
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