The Clansman : An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan /

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"" The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War, there began for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon, describes the social, political, and economic disinteg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946
Other Authors: Clark, Thomas D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) > Fiction.
White supremacy movements.
Social problems.
Racism.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
FICTION > Historical.
FICTION > Political.
Racisme > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Problemes sociaux > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mouvements pour la suprematie blanche > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Racism > Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Fiction.
Social problems > Fiction.
White supremacy movements > Fiction.
United States.
South Carolina.
Caroline du Sud > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
South Carolina > Fiction.
Political fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"" The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War, there began for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon, describes the social, political, and economic disintegration that plagued the South during Reconstruction, depicting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the reactions of two families to racial conflict. This study in social history was alternatively praised and damned by contemporary critics. As historian Thomas D. Clark notes in his introduction, the novel ""op.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages).
ISBN:9780813145839

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