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Author Pitsula, James M. (James Michael), 1950-

Title Keeping Canada British : the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan / James M. Pitsula
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Ku Klux Klan Comes to Saskatchewan -- 2 Jimmy Gardiner Attacks the Klan -- 3 The Battle Rages -- 4 The Klan Rampant -- 5 Race and Immigration -- 6 Anti-Catholicism -- 7 The Threat of Moral Disorder -- 8 Rage against the Machine -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) fast
Subject Racism -- Saskatchewan -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Race relations
Racism
Social conditions
SUBJECT Saskatchewan -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Saskatchewan -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Saskatchewan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774824910
0774824913
9780774824897
0774824891