But there was no peace : the role of violence in the politics of Reconstruction
"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."
History
xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
9780820307107, 9780820307039, 0820307106, 0820307033
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American violence, Southern violence, and Reconstruction
The Specter of Saint-Domingue
The Memphis race riot
New Orleans and the emergence of political violence
Military reconstruction: the triumph of Jacobinism
The origins of the Counterrevolution
The search for a strategy
Counterrevolution aborted: Louisiana, 1871-1875
Counterrevolution triumphant: Mississippi, 1873-1876
1876: The triumph of reaction
Epilogue: On the inevitability of tragedy