Andrew Wender Cohen

The Racketeer's Progress

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at economic violence in early twentieth-century Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780521834667
• ISBN-10: 052183466X
• Artikelnr.: 21461667

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modernisation and its discontents, 1900
2. Ruling the urban economy
3. The struggle for order
4. The progressive reaction
5. Rhetoric into law
6. Containing mass society and the problem of corruption
7. From conspiracy to racketeering
8. The new deal order from the bottom up
Epilogue: policing the post-war consensus.