Format:
388 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781469625423
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9781469652139
Content:
"The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North" ..
Note:
"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.". - Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4696-2543-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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American Studies
Keywords:
Ku-Klux-Klan
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USA
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Rassismus
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Geschichte 1865-1877
URL:
http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3705
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