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The Ku Klux Klan
This book traces the Klan from its beginning as a social club which quickly developed into a army of white-robed night-riders dedicated to restoring white supremacy during Reconstruction. After a period in the early Twenties, it extended its opposition to Catholics, Jews and recent immigrants.
El Ku Klux Klan
El Ku Klux Klan se fundó en el sur de Estados Unidos en 1865, al terminar la guerra civil, con el propósito de defender la supremacía blanca, que se había visto en entredicho por la Reconstrucción, un programa federal que otorgaba ciertos derechos a la población negra. Su evolución posterior incluyó a otras minorías: judíos, católicos o extranjeros (como no auténticamente americanos), a diferencia de blancos y protestantes (los únicos capaces de proteger el proyecto nacional). Un siglo más tarde, cuando el historiador William Peirce Randel escribía esta obra —convertida hoy en todo un clásico—, el florecimiento del Klan, que llegó a contar en algún momento con cinco mil...
The Ku Klux Klan
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
The Evolution of American Taste
Traces the development of American culture from Old World ideas and artifacts brought over by immigrants and often modified to suit new conditions through the nation's winning of independence and the westward expansion to the present.
The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing
For a half-century - from Edward Eggleston's pioneering novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster in 1871 through the dazzling early work of Hart Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s - Midwestern literature was at the center of American writing. In The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing, Ronald Weber illuminates the sense of lost promise that gives rise to the elegiac note struck in many Midwestern works; he also addresses the deeply divided feelings about the region revealed in the contrary desires to abandon and to celebrate. The period of Midwestern cultural ascendancy was a time of tremendous social and technological change. Midwestern writing was a reflection of these societal changes; it was American literature.
Edward Eggleston
A study of the life and writings of the novelist-historian.
