The Invisible Empire In The West
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The Invisible Empire In The West
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Author : Shawn Lay
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2004
The Invisible Empire In The West written by Shawn Lay and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This timely anthology describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan became one of the most influential social movements in modern American history. For decades historians have argued that the spectacular growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was fueled by a postwar surge in racism, religious bigotry, and status anxiety among lower-class white Americans. In recent years a growing body of scholarship has contradicted that appraisal, emphasizing the KKK's strong links to mainstream society and its role as a medium of corrective civic action. Addressing a set of common questions, contributors to this volume examine local Klan chapters in six Western cities: Denver, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; El Paso, Texas; Anaheim, California; and Eugene and La Grande, Oregon. Far from being composed of marginal men prone to violence and irrationality, the Klan drew its membership from a generally balanced cross section of the white male Protestant population. Overt racism and religious bigotry were major drawing cards for the hooded order, but intolerance frequently intertwined with community issues such as improved law enforcement, better public education, and municipal reform. The authors consolidate, focus, and expand upon new scholarship in a volume that should provide readers with an enhanced appreciation of the complex reasons why the Klan became one of the largest and most significant grass-roots social movements in twentieth-century America.
The Invisible Empire
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Author : Georgie Wemyss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Invisible Empire written by Georgie Wemyss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire. She demonstrates how the repetitive burying of British Empire histories of violence in the retelling of Britain’s past works to disguise how power operates in the present, showing how other related elements have been substantially reproduced through time to accommodate the challenges of history. The book combines ethnographic and discourse analysis with the study of connected histories to reveal how the dominant discourse maintains its dominance through its flexibility and its strategic alliances with subordinate groups.
Carpetbaggers Cavalry And The Ku Klux Klan
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Author : James Michael Martinez
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2007
Carpetbaggers Cavalry And The Ku Klux Klan written by James Michael Martinez and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
In some places during Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric high jinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but he arguably did more than any other person or entity to expose the identity of the Invisible Empire as a group of hooded, brutish, homegrown terrorists. In compiling evidence to prosecute the leading Klansmen and restoring at least a semblance of order to South Carolina, Merrill and his men demonstrated that the portrayal of the KKK as a chivalric organization was at best a myth and at worst a lie. Book jacket.
Inside The Klavern
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Author : Ku Klux Klan (1915- ...)
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1999
Inside The Klavern written by Ku Klux Klan (1915- ...) and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
An exploration of Klan activity in LaGrande, Oregon during the mid-twenties.
The Invisible Empire
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Author : Albion W. Tourgée
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Invisible Empire written by Albion W. Tourgée and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) categories.
Lords Of The Rim 2010
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Author : Sterling Seagrave
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2010-03-26
Lords Of The Rim 2010 written by Sterling Seagrave and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-26 with China categories.
For 2,000 years, China's merchants and adventurers have fled tyrannical dynasties to make their fortunes in other countries. Seagrave reveals for the first time the invisible empire of the Overseas Chinese, how it controls some adopted countries, and how it is tightly knit by a web of dialects, secret societies, triads, and financial networks worth over $2-trillion. Seagrave shows how the tide has reversed and rich Overseas Chinese have helped create China's boom making it now the world's No.1 economic power, while the West struggles to stay afloat. The result is a Chinese renaissance that has put a friendly smile on the face of the dragon in the Chinese century.
The Invisible Empire
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Author : Albion W. Tourgée
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Invisible Empire written by Albion W. Tourgée and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) categories.
The Ku Klux Klan In Western Pennsylvania 1921 1928
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Author : John Craig
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-10-27
The Ku Klux Klan In Western Pennsylvania 1921 1928 written by John Craig and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-27 with History categories.
Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania’s twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period between the Klan’s initial appearance in the state in 1921 and its virtual disappearance by 1928, particularly the heyday of the Invisible Empire, 1923–1925. This book examines a wide variety of KKK activities, but devotes special attention to the two large and deadly Klan riots in Carnegie and Lilly, as well as vigilantism associated with the intolerant order. Klansmen were drawn from a pool of ordinary Pennsylvanians who were driven, in part, by the search for fraternity, excitement, and civic betterment. However, their actions were also motivated by sinister, darker emotions and purposes. Disdainful of the rule of law, the Klan sought disorder and mayhem in pursuit of a racist, nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish agenda.
The Invisible Empire
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Author : Anthony S. Karen
language : en
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Release Date : 2009
The Invisible Empire written by Anthony S. Karen and has been published by powerHouse Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Racism categories.
The KKK remains one of the US's most secretive organisations but photojournalist Anthony S. Karen transcended that secrecy when he got the opprtunity to photograph a KKK ceremony. Since then, he has documented the organisation throughout the US. Taken with unrestricted access, the reader is drawn deep inside this private white nationalist organisation and introduced to a detailed visual account of modern day Klan life. Included are candid shots of rallies, portraits of Klansmen and a look at the naturalisation process for new members.
The Invisible Empire
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Author : Albion Winegar Tourgee
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1989-04-01
The Invisible Empire written by Albion Winegar Tourgee and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-04-01 with History categories.
The North Carolina carpetbagger Albion Winegar Tourgée came to the South in 1865 after serving as a Union volunteer during the Civil War. His struggles in the cause of civil rights led him to take part in the political reorganization of the region. However, in 1879, Tourgée despaired of his efforts in the South and returned to the North. There he published A Fool’s Errand, a largely autobiographical novel that depicted a southern society dominated by the Ku Klux Klan and riddled with racism, ignorance, and corrupt policies. Within a year of the release of A Fool’s Errand, Tourgée published The Invisible Empire, a nonfiction account of his years in the South intended to buttress the portrait of Reconstruction southern society he had depicted in his novel. The Invisible Empire investigates white supremacy as it emerged from the milieu of slavery, war, politics, and Reconstruction. Tourgée 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. He describes that Klan as the produce of southern hostility toward “any and all things” associated with the uplifting of the black population. Tourgée’s efforts in his books and in his life, were aimed at undermining racism and promoting egalitarian and democratic ideals. This reprint of The Invisible Empire brings to light a book that will interest scholars and general readers alike. It is 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. Otto H. Olsen’s introduction and notes place the work in its proper historical and literary context. His analysis of the documentary evidence supplied by various reliable sources gives Tourgée’s narrative a more solid historical basis than it has heretofore had.