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Paperback Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police Book

ISBN: B0CDB68VT2

ISBN13: 9798888900901

Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police

An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike--and the violent backlash that ensued--reveal the genesis of modern policing.
In the early years of the twentieth century, in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, nearly 150,000 miners took part in one of the most critical events in the history of US labor organizing. The brutal response by the state of Pennsylvania--as well as the...

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