Making Sense of the Molly MaguiresOxford University Press, 12 feb 1998 - 368 páginas Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, author Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration. |
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1 Whiteboys Ribbonmen and Molly Maguires | 13 |
2 The World of Anthracite | 45 |
3 Enter the Molly Maguires | 73 |
4 The Rise of a Labor Movement | 103 |
5 The Reading Railroad Takes Control | 131 |
6 The Return of the Molly Maguires | 157 |
Photos | 164 |
8 The Molly Maguires on Trial | 213 |
9 Black Thursday | 245 |
Epilogue | 277 |
Conclusion | 285 |
Appendices | 289 |
Bibliography | 315 |
329 | |
7 Rough Justice | 185 |
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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Kevin Kenny Vista previa restringida - 2023 |
Términos y frases comunes
American Ancient Order Anthracite Monitor AOH member assassination Benjamin Bannan Benjamin Yost bodymaster Boyle Broehl Campbell Carbon County Cass Township Clair Coal & Iron Coal Field collieries conspiracy convicted County Donegal December Doyle draft Duffy emigrated ethnic evidence executions Franklin Gowen hanged Herald History of Schuylkill Ibid immigrants industrial Ireland James McParlan January John Kehoe John Siney Journal June 21 Kelly Kerrigan killing labor leaders Lives and Crimes lower anthracite region Mahanoy City March Mauch Chunk McGehan McHugh miners Molly Maguire activities Molly Maguire Story Molly Maguire trials Molly Maguires Morgan Powell Munley murder newspaper O'Donnell October operators Order of Hibernians organization PBIS Pennsylvania percent Philadelphia Pinkerton political Pottsville prison prosecution protest Reading Railroad reported Ribbonmen Roarity Sanger Schlegel Schuylkill County secret society Shenandoah social surname Tamaqua Thomas tion trade union United Uren vigilante violence wages Welsh west Donegal west Ulster Wiggans Patch Workingmen's Benevolent Association York