Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri

by David R. Thelen

The years between 1865 and 1920 were eventful ones for the sake of Missouri. It was not only the time of Jesse James, Scott Joplin, and Mark Twain, of progressive governors Joseph Folk and Herbert Hadley, of the first general strike in St. Louis and some especially vicious vigilante activity, it was also the time when Missouri, like many other states, was being transformed by the tides of industrialism and economic growth. This social history examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195036670
• ISBN13: 9780195036671
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"