{"product_id":"ku-klux-the-birth-of-the-klan-during-reconstruction-paperback-softback-9781469652139","title":"Ku-Klux; The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction (Paperback \/ softback) 9781469652139","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKu-Klux\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElaine Frantz Parsons (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781469652139\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages, 10 halftones, 4 figs\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 23.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.592 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eExplodes many commonly held conceptions about the first Klan through meticulous research of thousands of sources.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eAgricultural History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Provides an interesting and insightful view of how the Klan phenomenon was portrayed in different venues and by different kinds of actors.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A superb, important new interpretation of the history of the first Ku Klux Klan. . . . Highly recommended for those interested in the history of the South, Reconstruction, and American racial violence.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"As much a cultural history as it is an institutional history, a refreshing departure from a vast literature that has long cataloged the political, social, and economic implications of Reconstruction violence.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Extraordinarily well-researched. . . .interesting and illuminating.\"\" - \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A happy marriage of the tools of social history and the insights of cultural history.\"\" -  \u003ci\u003eArkansas Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Essential reading for scholars focusing on the Civil War, Reconstruction, or racist violence in America.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A provocative reevaluation of the Ku Klux Klan that is essential reading for anyone studying the Reconstruction South.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eKu-Klux\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676623008024,"sku":"9781469652139","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ku-klux-the-birth-of-the-klan-during-reconstruction-paperback-softback-9781469652139","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}