Kenneth C Barnes

Gebundenes Buch

Mob Rule in the Ozarks

The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923

Beschreibung

"Railroad War in the Ozarks chronicles one of the longest rail strikes in American history--and the only one that was ended through a mob uprising. The 1921-23 strike reflected some of the major economic issues that preoccupied the United States in the years following World War I and created a rupture within communities of the Arkansas Ozarks that would take years to heal"--

Autor

Kenneth C. Barnes is distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893 and Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910-1960. For his most recent book, The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas, Barnes garnered his third J. G. Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781682262610
• ISBN-10: 1682262618
• Artikelnr.: 70922519