Battle of Blair Mountain
In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair Mountain , Robert Shogan shows this long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.
| Autor: | Shogan, Robert |
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| EAN: | 9780465077731 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 296 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publisher ServicesBooks |
| Untertitel: | The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising |
| Schlagworte: | Blair Mountain (Arbeiteraufstand) USA, Geschichte; Sozial/Wirtschafts.-Geschichte |
| Größe: | 228 |
| Gewicht: | 392 g |
