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The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks (Working Class in American History)

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The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the USA in the 1880s. A new history of the transatlantic origins of American anarchism, this study thoroughly debunks the dominant narrative in which most historians interpret the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886–87.
 
Challenging the view that there used to be no evidence connecting the eight convicted workers to the bomb throwing on the Haymarket rally, Timothy Messer-Kruse examines police investigations and trial proceedings that reveal the hidden transatlantic networks, the violent subculture, and the misunderstood beliefs of Gilded Age anarchists. Messer-Kruse documents how, in the 1880s, radicals on both sides of the Atlantic came to celebrate armed struggle as the one true way forward and started to prepare seriously for conflict. Within this milieu, he suggests the potential of a “Haymarket conspiracy”: a coordinated plan of attack by which the oft-martyred Haymarket radicals in truth posed a real threat to public order and safety. Drawing on new, never-before published historical evidence, The Haymarket Conspiracy provides a new means of understanding the revolutionary anarchist movement by itself terms somewhat than in the romantic ways by which its agents have been eulogized.


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