Robert M. Sandow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823245680
- eISBN:
- 9780823252664
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823245680.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
During the Civil War Republicans contended that secret Democratic societies defied the government, undermining the Union war effort. The assertion of Democratic disloyalty lay at the core of ...
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During the Civil War Republicans contended that secret Democratic societies defied the government, undermining the Union war effort. The assertion of Democratic disloyalty lay at the core of Republican Party rhetoric during the war and remained a potent partisan strategy in the postwar decades. It held sway through the mid-twentieth century when historian Frank Klement took up the “Copperhead” cause. Klement's many books and articles presented them as civil libertarians frustrated and disadvantaged by their wartime role as opponents of the Lincoln administration. Klement dismissed the charges of Democratic Secret Societies as Republican propaganda. New work on the Copperheads by Jennifer Weber reasserts the Republican paradigm of Democratic treason and dismisses Klement as an apologist. This essay will use Pennsylvania as a test case to explore the reality of undeniable Democratic clubs. A minority of dissatisfied Democrats did organize, but at the grass-roots level. Their ad hoc associations mirrored the creation of Republican “loyal” societies with a spectrum of goals, from partisan unification to draft resistance. Military tribunals of test cases failed to vindicate Republican assertions of widespread Democratic treason. Thus the Republican paradigm falters when held to the light of evidence at the local level.Less
During the Civil War Republicans contended that secret Democratic societies defied the government, undermining the Union war effort. The assertion of Democratic disloyalty lay at the core of Republican Party rhetoric during the war and remained a potent partisan strategy in the postwar decades. It held sway through the mid-twentieth century when historian Frank Klement took up the “Copperhead” cause. Klement's many books and articles presented them as civil libertarians frustrated and disadvantaged by their wartime role as opponents of the Lincoln administration. Klement dismissed the charges of Democratic Secret Societies as Republican propaganda. New work on the Copperheads by Jennifer Weber reasserts the Republican paradigm of Democratic treason and dismisses Klement as an apologist. This essay will use Pennsylvania as a test case to explore the reality of undeniable Democratic clubs. A minority of dissatisfied Democrats did organize, but at the grass-roots level. Their ad hoc associations mirrored the creation of Republican “loyal” societies with a spectrum of goals, from partisan unification to draft resistance. Military tribunals of test cases failed to vindicate Republican assertions of widespread Democratic treason. Thus the Republican paradigm falters when held to the light of evidence at the local level.
Christine B. N. Chin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199890910
- eISBN:
- 9780199345489
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199890910.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
Chapter Five examines ‘Syndicate X’ (pseudonym), its historical origins, organization structure and operations. This syndicate is one of the largest groups specializing exclusively in non-trafficked ...
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Chapter Five examines ‘Syndicate X’ (pseudonym), its historical origins, organization structure and operations. This syndicate is one of the largest groups specializing exclusively in non-trafficked transnational migrant women sex workers. The syndicate and its counterparts are anchors in KL’s migration-ancillary industry for sex work (e.g., ancillary partners such as money changers or hawala, and alliances with overseas syndicates). This chapter discusses why and how Syndicate X morphed from a hierarchical Chinese triad or secret society controlling on-street Malaysian women sex workers, to a more horizontal corporate-like enterprise specializing in up-market sexual services performed by transnational migrant women (especially those on the ‘Asian Circuit’ of sex work). Syndicate X brings in women of different nationalities and provides them with board and lodging, personal security and men clientele in exchange for monthly board and lodging fees and taxes on women’s incomes. Shaped by KL’s history of race relations, the racialisation of Syndicate X and migrant women also is examined in this chapter.Less
Chapter Five examines ‘Syndicate X’ (pseudonym), its historical origins, organization structure and operations. This syndicate is one of the largest groups specializing exclusively in non-trafficked transnational migrant women sex workers. The syndicate and its counterparts are anchors in KL’s migration-ancillary industry for sex work (e.g., ancillary partners such as money changers or hawala, and alliances with overseas syndicates). This chapter discusses why and how Syndicate X morphed from a hierarchical Chinese triad or secret society controlling on-street Malaysian women sex workers, to a more horizontal corporate-like enterprise specializing in up-market sexual services performed by transnational migrant women (especially those on the ‘Asian Circuit’ of sex work). Syndicate X brings in women of different nationalities and provides them with board and lodging, personal security and men clientele in exchange for monthly board and lodging fees and taxes on women’s incomes. Shaped by KL’s history of race relations, the racialisation of Syndicate X and migrant women also is examined in this chapter.
Kyle Hughes and Donald MacRaild (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781786940650
- eISBN:
- 9781786944986
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940650.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The study of crime and violence in all its multifarious forms remains one of the most productive areas of enquiry for Irish historians. Considered an inordinately violent and unruly society by many ...
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The study of crime and violence in all its multifarious forms remains one of the most productive areas of enquiry for Irish historians. Considered an inordinately violent and unruly society by many contemporaries, nineteenth-century Ireland was notorious for sectarian unrest, agrarian disorder, alcohol-fuelled casual fighting, the seditious activities of various illegal underground organisations, as well as a host of other ‘outrages’. The image of an Ireland in an almost perpetual state of tumult during the nineteenth century, however, is a false one, invariably pedalled by partisan observers with a particular political or religious agenda to satisfy. Modern historical scholarship has corrected many lingering assumptions about the extent and character of Irish violence, but much work remains to be done. This important collection of essays, based on original research delivered at one of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s most successful annual conferences, draws together some of Ireland’s leading historians as well emerging talents to examine a broad range of topics under the banner of crime and violence. Irish secret societies, agrarian disorder, security and the law, sectarian violence, and a host of similar topics benefit from innovative methodological perspectives and advanced historical scholarship.Less
The study of crime and violence in all its multifarious forms remains one of the most productive areas of enquiry for Irish historians. Considered an inordinately violent and unruly society by many contemporaries, nineteenth-century Ireland was notorious for sectarian unrest, agrarian disorder, alcohol-fuelled casual fighting, the seditious activities of various illegal underground organisations, as well as a host of other ‘outrages’. The image of an Ireland in an almost perpetual state of tumult during the nineteenth century, however, is a false one, invariably pedalled by partisan observers with a particular political or religious agenda to satisfy. Modern historical scholarship has corrected many lingering assumptions about the extent and character of Irish violence, but much work remains to be done. This important collection of essays, based on original research delivered at one of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s most successful annual conferences, draws together some of Ireland’s leading historians as well emerging talents to examine a broad range of topics under the banner of crime and violence. Irish secret societies, agrarian disorder, security and the law, sectarian violence, and a host of similar topics benefit from innovative methodological perspectives and advanced historical scholarship.
Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786941350
- eISBN:
- 9781789629286
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941350.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
The introduction provides an overview of the phenomenon that was Ribbonism, teasing out its roots in the 1798 Rising and charting its progress from clandestine Catholic self-defence association to ...
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The introduction provides an overview of the phenomenon that was Ribbonism, teasing out its roots in the 1798 Rising and charting its progress from clandestine Catholic self-defence association to open political association. It does this within the framework of an assessment of the slippery meaning and varied historiography of Ribbonism and its associated organisations.Less
The introduction provides an overview of the phenomenon that was Ribbonism, teasing out its roots in the 1798 Rising and charting its progress from clandestine Catholic self-defence association to open political association. It does this within the framework of an assessment of the slippery meaning and varied historiography of Ribbonism and its associated organisations.
Michael Huggins
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781786940650
- eISBN:
- 9781786944986
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940650.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This reappraisal of the language and literature of Irish 'secret societies' questions the veracity of the blanket use of that term by contemporaries and modern historians. Ribbon societies are ...
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This reappraisal of the language and literature of Irish 'secret societies' questions the veracity of the blanket use of that term by contemporaries and modern historians. Ribbon societies are identified as the only true secret society, despite the tendency of Dublin Castle, the police, and their various agents and communicants to describe a variety of disorders as inspired or committed by clandestine societies. is is a significant and challenging viewpoint and one justified by a skilful and useful anatomization of the historiography to conclude that Ribbonism was a general community defence mechanism, but ‘an associational form that sought to distinguish itself from the rest of the community by its secrecy, its complex rituals and its quasi-masonic organizational model’ The chapter sees Ribbonism primarily as a show of collective economic interest.Less
This reappraisal of the language and literature of Irish 'secret societies' questions the veracity of the blanket use of that term by contemporaries and modern historians. Ribbon societies are identified as the only true secret society, despite the tendency of Dublin Castle, the police, and their various agents and communicants to describe a variety of disorders as inspired or committed by clandestine societies. is is a significant and challenging viewpoint and one justified by a skilful and useful anatomization of the historiography to conclude that Ribbonism was a general community defence mechanism, but ‘an associational form that sought to distinguish itself from the rest of the community by its secrecy, its complex rituals and its quasi-masonic organizational model’ The chapter sees Ribbonism primarily as a show of collective economic interest.
Nathaniel L. Moir
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197629888
- eISBN:
- 9780197650202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197629888.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
This chapter analyses the early Cold War in Southeast Asia. It examines this global conflict by assessing Bernard Fall's experiences and how France's return to Vietnam after World War II bound the ...
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This chapter analyses the early Cold War in Southeast Asia. It examines this global conflict by assessing Bernard Fall's experiences and how France's return to Vietnam after World War II bound the United States to Southeast Asia in consequential ways. The chapter, through Fall's study as an early scholar in the Fulbright Program, provides a foundation for the remaining chapters on the development of the First Indochina War, the Second Indochina War and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare.Less
This chapter analyses the early Cold War in Southeast Asia. It examines this global conflict by assessing Bernard Fall's experiences and how France's return to Vietnam after World War II bound the United States to Southeast Asia in consequential ways. The chapter, through Fall's study as an early scholar in the Fulbright Program, provides a foundation for the remaining chapters on the development of the First Indochina War, the Second Indochina War and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare.