The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean

How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

Tariq D. Khan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08743-1 (ISBN)

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The long relationship between America’s colonizing wars and virulent anticommunism The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan’s analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation’s long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded the tactics, weapons, myths, and ideology refined in America’s colonizing wars to repress anarchists, labor unions, and a host of others labeled as alien, multi-racial, multi-ethnic urban rabble. The ruling classes considered radicals of all stripes to be anticolonial insurgents. As Khan charts the decades of red scares that began in the 1840s, he reveals how capitalists and government used much-practiced counterinsurgency rhetoric and tactics against the movements they perceived and vilified as “anarchist.”

Original and boldly argued, The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean offers an enlightening new history with relevance for our own time.

Tariq D. Khan is a lecturer in the history of psychology at Yale University.

Acknowledgments Author’s Note on Terminology

Introduction

Class, Race, Gender, and Empire
“Civilization” versus “Savagery”
“The Republic Shall be Kept Clean”
The Guns of 1877
Republicans and Anarchists
The Respectable Mob
Aliens and Mobs

Conclusion: “The Problem of the Proletariat and the Colonial Problem” Notes

Libraries and Archives Utilized

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	2 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08743-7 / 0252087437
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08743-1 / 9780252087431
Zustand	Neuware