The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West

Lause, Mark

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Verso, 2018

1786631962 / 9781786631961

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Brief gift inscription by previous owner. In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of rugged individualism, independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes. Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a ?beef bonanza? that attracted international capital. Business interests approached the market with the expectation that it would have the same freedom to brutally impose its will as it had exercised on native peoples and the recently emancipated African Americans. These assumptions contributed to a series of bitter and violent range wars, which broke out from Texas to Montana and framed the appearance of labor conflicts in the region. These social tensions stirred a series of political insurgencies that became virtually endemic to the American West of the Gilded Age. Mark A. Lause explores the relationship between these neglected labor conflicts, the ?range wars,? and the third-party movements.The Great Cowboy Strike subverts American mythology to reveal the class abuses and inequalities that have blinded a nation to its true history and nature.…

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Titre
The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
Auteur
Lause, Mark
Éditeur
Verso
Année de publication
2018
État de l'article
As New
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1786631962
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781786631961
Poids de l'article
22 onces
Dimensions
9x6x1
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Western Americana

Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

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