But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

Rable, George C.

ISBN 10: 0820330116 / ISBN 13: 9780820330112

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820330116
• ISBN 13: 9780820330112
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative nature of Federal policy in the Reconstruction South. However, George C. Rable argues, white southerners saw the intent and the results of that policy as revolutionary. Violence therefore became a counterrevolutionary instrument, placing the South in a pattern familiar to students of world revolution.

About the Author

GEORGE C. RABLE is Professor and Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. His books include Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! and The Confederate Republic.