But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820330112)

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.

Author: George C. Rable
ISBN-10: 0820330116
ISBN-13: 9780820330112
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d