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10%OFFJames M. Pitsula - Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan - 9780774824903 - V9780774824903
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Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan

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Description for Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan Paperback. This provocative book provides a new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan, arguing that it should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance but as a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion that wanted to keep Canada British. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFE; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.

The Ku Klux Klan had its origins in the American South in the post-Civil War period. It was suppressed but rose again in the 1920s and spread into Canada, especially Saskatchewan, where it flourished. James Pitsula offers a new interpretation for the appeal of the Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan. He argues that the Klan should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance and hatred but rather as a populist aftershock of the First World War. Fearing that the hard-won victory to keep Canada British was being undone by massive immigration from Central and Eastern Europe, many Saskatchewanians ... Read more

Keeping Canada British tackles a controversial issue central to the history of Saskatchewan and the formation of national identity. In seeking to understand the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in all of its strange complexity, this book shines light upon a dark corner of Canada’s past.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774824903
SKU
V9780774824903
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About James M. Pitsula
James M. Pitsula is a professor of history at the University of Regina.

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