The Invisible Empire: A Concise Review of the Epoch (Library of Southern Civilization) - Softcover

Tourgee, Albion Winegar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807114626 ISBN 13: 9780807114629

Verlag: LSU Press, 1989

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Investigates white supremacy as it emerged from the milieu of slavery, war, politics, and Reconstruction. Tourgee argues that organizations such as the Klan appealed to the mass of white southerners as a means of ameliorating their defeat and ensuring a measure of political control. A striking, contemporary look into the mind of the carpetbagger and the genesis of both the Ku Klux Klan and the political structure of the postwar South.

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Otto H. Olsen teaches history at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Carpetbagger's Crusade, a biography of Albion W. Tourgée.

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The Invisible Empire investigates white supremacy as it emerged from the milieu of slavery, war, politics, and Reconstruction. Tourgee argues that organizations such as the Klan appealed to the mass of white southerners as a means of ameliorating their defeat and ensuring a measure of political control.

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• Verlag: LSU Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807114626
• ISBN 13: 9780807114629
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
• Herausgeber: Tourgee Albion Winegar, Olsen Otto H.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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