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008			110415s2011 ilu ob 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aE458 _b.S437 2011
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aLause, Mark A. _e1
245	1	0	_aA secret society history of the Civil War /Mark A. Lause.
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource
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505	0	0	_aCover -- _tTitle Page -- _tCopyright Page -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tPrologue. Old World Contours: Revolutionary Politics and the Secret Society Tradition -- _tPART I. ALTERNATIVE MEANS -- _t1. The Brotherhood of the Union: George Lippard and the Palestine of Redeemed Labor -- _t2. Universal Democratic Republicans: Hugh Forbes and Transatlantic Antislavery Radicalism -- _tIllustrations follow page 50 -- _t3. Lone Stars and Golden Circles: The Manifest Destiny of George W.L. Bickley -- _tPART II. CHALLENGING POWER
505	0	0	_a4. Higher Laws: The Fulcrum of African American National Identity5. Decisive Means: Political Violence and National Self-Definition -- _tPART III. ENDS -- _t6. The Counterfeit Nation: The KGC, Secession, and the Confederate Experience -- _t7. The Republic Saved: Secret Societies and the Survival of the Union -- _tEpilogue. Long Shadows: Lineages of the Secret Society Tradition in America -- _tNotes -- _tIndex
520	0		_aThis unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European revolutions of 1848. Lause traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, the most conspicuous being the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. Lause profiles the key leaders of these organizations, with special focus on George Lippard, Hugh Forbes, and George Washington Lafayette Bickley._x000B__x000B_Antebellum secret societies ranged politically from those with progressive or even revolutionary agendas to those that pursued conservative or oppressive goals. This book shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions in the United States. Lause's research indicates that the pervasive influence of secret societies may have played a part in key events such as the Freesoil movement, the beginning of the Republican party, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860-1861._x000B__x000B_This exceptional study encompasses both white and African American secret society involvement, revealing the black fraternal experience in antebellum America as well as the clandestine operations that provided assistance to escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Unraveling these pervasive and extensive networks of power and influence, A Secret Society History of the Civil War demonstrates that antebellum secret societies played a greater role in affecting Civil War-era politics than has been previously acknowledged.
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650		0	_aSecret societies _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSecret societies _xInfluence _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aGovernment, Resistance to _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell