num_pages: 257
description: 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.
language: English
title: But there was no peace: The role of violence in the politics of Reconstruction
titlecomplete: But there was no peace: The role of violence in the politics of Reconstruction
genres: 19th Century, History, American History, Race, Civil War
ratings_count: 38
publisher: University of Georgia Press