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

Lause, Mark A.

ISBN 10: 1786631962 / ISBN 13: 9781786631961

Edité par Verso, 2017

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THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. 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 brok 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. THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, & Class Conflicts in the American West
• Éditeur: Verso
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1786631962
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781786631961
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New

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Synopsis

Although later made an icon of 'rugged individualism,' the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent 'range wars' that broke out periodically across the region, and locating both among the political insurgencies endemic to the American West in the so-called Gilded Age.

À propos de l?auteur

Mark A. Lause is a professor of history at the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Most of his work explores and documents the economic, social, and political possibilities that came clearly into focus roughly around the time of the American Civil War, often approaching the subject from neglected directions - the contemporary working-class movements, land reform, secret societies, and third-party efforts, as well as bohemianism and spiritualism.