America's Culture of Terrorism : Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (291 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Terrorism in the American Cultural Imagination -- Terrorism and Contemporary America -- Terrorist Theory:Words and Deeds -- Terrorism and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Economy -- Notes -- 1. Imagining Terrorism in America: The 1886 Chicago Haymarket Bombing -- Prescience, Paranoia,Terrorism -- The Media and the Bombing's Absent Witnesses -- Conspiring to Thwart Conspiracies -- Profiles of a Terrorist -- Threats -- Notes -- 2. Gendering the Terrorist: Writing, Class Violence, and Gender in Henry James -- Scripted Identities -- The Terrorist Princess -- Domesticating the Terrorist -- Notes -- 3. The United States of Terrorism: The Political Economy of Lynching and Citizenship in Thomas Dixon and Ida B.Wells -- Thomas Dixon's Novels: In Fear of a Mulatto Nation -- Reconstruction, Anarchy, and the Ku Klux Klan's New America -- Imperial Adventures, Class Politics, and the Reuniting of White America -- Ida B.Wells and the Rewriting of America's ''National Crime'' -- Notes -- 4. This Firm of Men-Killers: Jack London and the Incorporation of Terrorism -- Dynamite and the State's Business -- Terrorism and the ''Capitalist Organization'' -- Corporate Terrorism -- Notes -- 5. Sabotage: Class Antagonism and the Fantasies of Violence -- The Career Dynamiter and the National Dynamite Plot -- The Sabo-Tabby, the Wooden Shoe, and Those ''Bomb-Throwing I Won't Works'' -- Covington Hall: Wobbly Poet of Visionary Violence -- Notes -- Epilogue: After 9/11 -- Notes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D-E -- F-H -- I -- J-M -- N-P -- R-S -- T -- U-W -- Z.
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Terrorism -- United States -- History. Violence -- United States -- History. Capitalism -- United States -- History. Mass media -- United States -- History. United States -- Social conditions.