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• Introduction: The quintessential American
• Part one: An empire of hate. Birth and death of the Klan
• An opening in Indiana
• Men with badges
• A coup and a clash
• Woman of the year
• The other Indiana
• The unmasking
• Creating D. C. Stephenson
• A master race in the Midwest
• Independence Day
• Governors, guns, and God
• Part two: Monster of the midway. Lord of the manor
• Rage of the resistance
• The Klan on top
• Hoosier hysteria
• The last train to Chicago
• A vigil in Irvington
• The witness
• Part three: Reckoning. Big man in a small town
• One nation under a shroud
• To slay a dragon
• She said
• Inside and outside
• He said
• The closers
• Verdict
• Dirt from the dragon
• Epilogue

"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson. Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he'd become the Grand Dragon of the state and and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows--their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman--Madge Oberholtzer--who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees"-- Provided by publisher

• Les vietnamiens et la franc-maçonnerie en Indochine
• Pt. 1. Quelques notions sur la franc-maçonnerie
• Pourquoi cette dénomination en vietnamien "trois points "
• Logo
• La franc-maçonnerie (FM) et le parti communiste (pc)
• La sélection et le conflit dans l'intelligentsia indochinoise
• Le conflit culturel
• Armes multi-culturelles
• Pt. 2. Loges de la franc-maçonnerie en Indochine
• La situation générale
• Les loges maçonniques indochinoises
• Liste des loges maçonniques en Indochine
• Pt. 3. Composition de la franc-maçonnerie indochinoise
• Avocat-fonctionnaires
• Éducation
• Profession libérale.
• Médecine
• Autres sciences
• Militaires français
• Le caodaïsme
• La naissance du caodaïsme
• Les Franc-maçon et le caodaïsme
• Les dignitaires caodaïstes
• Pt. 4. Engagement politique
• Gouvernement provisoire
• Gouvernement
• Pt. 5. Glorification
• Glorification de la religion
• La glorification à travers les noms des rues
• Avant 1975
• Glorification par les noms de rues après 1975
• Glorification au Vietnam
• Hoàng minh giám
• Phạm ngọc thạch
• Trịnh đình thảo
• Tạ thu thâu
• Cao triều phát.

"Autrefois, le Vietnam était une colonie française. Étiré tout au long d'une côte sinueuse, le pays a été divisé en trois régions qui ont été fusionnées dans ce qui a formé l'Indochine qui comprenait outre le Vietnam, le Laos et le Cambodge. La colonisation française s'est étendue sur plus d'un siècle. De nombreux intellectuels vietnamiens ont nourri le désir d'accéder à l'indépendance de leur nation. Confrontés à une puissance coloniale de premier plan qui possédait de vastes territoires à travers le monde, ils se sont alliés malgré leurs divergences, afin de libérer le pays du joug du colonisateur. Adhérer aux valeurs de la franc-maçonnerie leur a donné les moyens et les outils de préserver leur culture et leur langue afin de lutter pour la liberté, l'égalité et la fraternité de manière pacifique. Certains francs-maçons ont eu une influence spectaculaire dans cette guerre du silence. Leurs succès et leurs échecs sont devenus légendaires. Tout pour la liberté et l'indépendance nationale : C'était l'engagement de la majorité des premiers frères de la franc-maçonnerie indochinoise naissante. Ils ont vécu et combattu toute leur vie pour leur idéal de Liberté, d'Égalité et de Fraternité. Leur engagement s'est transformé en légende."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: White lives matter
• more!
• Conspiracism : modern and postmodern
• Long ago in a Prague cemetery far away
• The Muslim Brotherhood(s)
• Living the dream

"Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination explores how Jews and Muslims are stigmatized and endangered by the same conspiratorial template. Supremacists imagine that Jews and Muslims secretly strive to replace white, European civilization with an unspeakable tyranny. The authors, a Jew and a Muslim, analyze the nature of the conspiracism that targets their communities. They historicize the supremacist conspiratorial imagination, narrating the paranoia on a continuum, from modernity to the postmodern. They begin with the texts of modernity, following them through to the dark areas of the Internet and examining their violent denouement in synagogues and mosques. The book investigates the classic text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and neoclassic variations such as QAnon. It turns to Islamophobic responses to 9/11 such as paranoia regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and the doppelgänger of The Protocols, namely The Project. The authors conclude by questioning how "ordinary" people, prompted by paranoia and recognition hunger, resort to violence and murder. Admittedly, the authors are not certain-certainty is for conspiracists. But they may have a piece of the puzzle. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of conspiracy theories, antisemitism, Judeophobia, Islamophobia, political science, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and criminology"-- Provided by publisher

• Pt. 1. La sociabilité associative : une évolution des cadres et des pratiques
• Introduction
• 1. À partir des années 1830, réactivation et amplification
• Racines associatives
• Premières sociétés littéraires et loges maçonniques
• Première renaissance
• Floraison des cercles
• Lecture, jeux et consommation d'alcool
• Des lieux privatifs
• Deux vagues de créations
• Des appellations diversifiées
• Un phénomène angevin
• Greffe des associations catholiques
• Multiplication des sociétés de cure
• Les premiers patronages ruraux
• Quelques associations de jeunes filles
• Un mouvement associatif caritatif rare
• 2. À partir des années 1880, nationalisation
• Les sapeurs-pompiers, de nouvelles racines
• Des activités qui dépassent la seule lutte conne l'incendie
• Des créations liées à une conjonction de facteurs
• Une pérennisation républicaine
• Éclosion des associations musicales
• Des appellations qui cachent une diversité toute relative
• Une pratique musicale qui se développe après 1880
• Une première percée associative
• Une activité intense et variée
• Développement des associations conscriptives
• Les débuts timides du tir
• Des sociétés conscriptives plus nombreuses et plus diversifiées
• Le rôle majeur des patronages catholiques
• Des installations et des équipements très inégaux
• 3. À partir des années 1910, généralisation
• Foisonnement des associations sportives
• Les véloce-clubs, "fers de lance" de & pratique sportive
• Des sociétés conscriptives aux associations sportives
• Des lieux en construction
• Débuts des sociétés amicales
• Le succès tardif des associations amicales périscolaires
• L'essor des groupements d'anciens combattants
• Étiolement des premiers types d'associations
• Déclin et extinction des cercles angevins
• Remise en question de la sociabilité catholique
• Le repli des sociétés musicales
• L'évolution contrastée des sapeurs-pompiers
• Conclusion de la première partie
• Pt. 2. La sociabilité associative : une diffraction sociale
• 4. Des différenciations sociales accrues
• Une sociabilité associative féminine restreinte
• Des concierges de cercles
• Des femmes d'honneur
• Des associations de jeunes filles aux amicales d'anciennes élèves
• La place des femmes dans la société rurale mayennaise
• Des jeunes sous contrôle ?
• L'âge en association : la théorie
• L'âge en association : la pratique
• Le contrôle des vieux
• La place des jeunes dans les campagnes mayennaises
• Hommes du bourg, hommes des hameaux
• Un monde d'artisans-commerçants
• Propriétaires, fonctionnaires et professions libérales
• Un monde agricole en retrait
• L'affirmation du bourg
• 5. Une redéfinition de la notabilité
• La résilience de la noblesse
• À la tête des sociétés de cure
• Une implication renforcée
• La guerre et le cheval : valorisation associative des marqueurs aristocratiques
• Le rôle renouvelé du clergé rural
• Un clergé à la manœuvre
• Un clergé en retrait
• Le re, siècle du renouveau associatif catholique
• L'émergence de nouveaux leaders
• Une nouvelle notabilité : docteurs en médecine et entrepreneurs
• Un acteur prépondérant : l'instituteur
• 6. Un renouvellement des rapports sociaux
• De nouveaux réseaux
• Sociabilité associative et liens familiaux
• Sociabilité associative et liens professionnels
• Connexion de réseaux de sociabilité associative
• De nouvelles solidarités
• Solidarité morale
• Solidarité associative et obligations familiales
• Solidarité matérielle
• De nouvelles conflictualités
• Laver son linge sale en famille
• Sur la place publique
• Pt. 3. La sociabilité associative : un choc culturel ?
• 7. Un vecteur de la "culture patricienne"
• De nouvelles pratiques
• La nouveauté ludique et sportive
• Un nouveau répertoire musical mayennais
• La nouveauté théâtrale : l'exemple du cercle Saint-Joseph d'Évron
• Un nouveau formalisme démocratique
• Des cercles aux principes démocratiques
• Admission, exclusion
• Un conservatisme politique e
• De nouvelles normes comportementales
• Une contribution à la "civilisation des meurs"
• Des propos mesurés
• Un respect des horaires et des réunions
• Les normes de virilité : un "retour en force"
• 8. Un bouillon de culture prépondérant
• De "vieilles habitudes" déjà sur la défensive
• Des assemblées communales mayennaises en déclin
• Des veillées toujours vivaces dans les campagnes mayennaises
• Un fonds de musiques anciennes riche
• Un fonds de jeux anciens relativement pauvre
• Une influence urbaine grandissante
• Une influence angevine déterminante
• Culture urbaine, culture rurale
• Le rôle charnière du pouvoir municipal
• Jusqu'aux années 1870, une "municipalisation" naissante
• A partir des années 1880, une "municipalisation" croissante
• 9. Une intégration culturelle
• L'effacement de la coutume
• Une acculturation musicale
• Les temps de sociabilité coutumière : entre déclin et reviviscence
• Une mise en réseaux du rural
• Années 1880-années 1900 : le temps des concours
• Des années 1900 à 1918 : k temps des premiers championnats
• De 1918 aux années 1930, vers des championnats plus développés
• Émergence d'un patriotisme local
• Conflits associatifs et intégration nationale
• La "guerre des fanfares"
• La "guerre du tir".

"Il existe au moins trois bonnes raisons d'étudier la sociabilité associative rurale en Mayenne entre les années 1830 et les années 1930. Premièrement, la sociabilité est un concept qui, après avoir connu un grand succès en sciences sociales il y a une quarantaine d'années puis avoir été considéré comme passé de mode, mérite qu'on y revienne dans une approche culturelle et sociale. Deuxièmement, le monde associatif dans les campagnes françaises au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle est un sujet encore trop peu étudié et auquel il reste à accorder toute la place qui lui revient dans les mutations de l'époque contemporaine, au même titre que l'école. Troisièmement, la France de l'Ouest est un espace injustement disqualifié par l'historiographie pour ce qui relève de la vie sociale. Des sociétés littéraires aux clubs sportifs, en passant par les cercles, les sociétés de cure, les corps de sapeurs-pompiers, les sociétés musicales, les patronages catholiques, les associations conscriptives, les amicales d'anciennes et d'anciens élèves et celles d'anciens combattants, il est alors possible de saisir comment, à l'époque contemporaine, une culture formalisée, incarnée par la sociabilité associative, émerge face à une culture coutumière, moins "civilisée", celle des veillées et des assemblées villageoises. Ce qui se joue là n'est pas tant affaire de remplacement que d'acculturation."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: The paranoid republic
• Part One: As above, so below
• The arch and the cenotaph
• The craft
• The dreadful fire
• "There is something earnest in all this, but the object is concealed"
• Part Two: Deep-laid schemes
• Mysteries of iniquity
• "Do not open your lips"
• In the convent's crypt
• Fresh from the loins of the people
• A piece of machinery, so to speak
• The mystic red
• Part Three: National indigestion
• Abraham Lincoln's secret confidant
• The man who threw the bomb
• A matter of trusts
• The world's enigma
• The (in)visible empire
• Part Four: Wonders of the invisible world
• Subliminals
• Truth drugs
• Purity of essence
• Beware the Siberian beetle
• Part five: Behind the hieroglyphic streets
• Networks
• The suburban uncanny
• Attack of the lizard people!
• The banality of evil
• Nothing is true, everything is permitted
• Epilogue: Citizens' commissions.

"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups are conspiring to pervert the will of the people and the rule of law. We'd like to assume these panics exist only at the fringes of society, or are unique features of an internet age. But history tells us, in fact, that they are woven into the fabric of American democracy. Cultural historian Colin Dickey has built a career studying how our most irrational beliefs reach the mainstream, why, and what they tell us about ourselves. In Under the Eye of Power, Dickey charts the history of America through its paranoias and fears of secret societies, while seeking to explain why so many people-including some of the most powerful people in the country-continue to subscribe to these conspiracy theories. Paradoxically, he finds, belief in the fantastical and conspiratorial can be more soothing than what we fear the most: the chaos and randomness of history, the rising and falling of fortunes in America, and the messiness of democracy. Only in seeing the cycle of this history, Dickey says, can we break it"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The paranoid republic
• Part one: As above, so below. The arch and the cenotaph
• The craft
• The dreadful fire
• "There is something earnest in all this, but the object is concealed"
• Part two: Deep-laid schemes. Mysteries of iniquity
• "Do not open your lips"
• In the convent's crypt
• Fresh from the loins of the people
• A piece of machinery, so to speak
• The mystic red
• Part three: National indigestion. Abraham Lincoln's secret confidant
• The man who threw the bomb
• A matter of trusts
• The world's enigma
• The (in)visible empire
• Part four: Wonders of the invisible world. Subliminals
• Truth drugs
• Purity of essence
• Beware the Siberian beetle
• Part five: Behind the hieroglyphic streets. Networks
• The suburban uncanny
• Attack of the lizard people!
• The banality of evil
• Nothing is true, everything is permitted
• Epilogue: Citizens' commissions

"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups are conspiring to pervert the will of the people and the rule of law. We'd like to assume these panics exist only at the fringes of society, or are unique features of an internet age. But history tells us, in fact, that they are woven into the fabric of American democracy. Cultural historian Colin Dickey has built a career studying how our most irrational beliefs reach the mainstream, why, and what they tell us about ourselves. In Under the Eye of Power, Dickey charts the history of America through its paranoias and fears of secret societies, while seeking to explain why so many people-including some of the most powerful people in the country-continue to subscribe to these conspiracy theories. Paradoxically, he finds, belief in the fantastical and conspiratorial can be more soothing than what we fear the most: the chaos and randomness of history, the rising and falling of fortunes in America, and the messiness of democracy. Only in seeing the cycle of this history, Dickey says, can we break it"-- Provided by publisher

"Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens' Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement in the region." -- from publisher's description.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Camp Fire Girls Confront a Crisis in American Girlhood
• 1. "Preparing for Sex Equality": Gender Ideals and the Founding Years
• 2. "Wohelo Maidens" and "Gypsy Trails": Racial Mimicry and Camp Fire's Picturesque Girl Citizen
• 3. "All Prejudices Seem to Disappear": Race, Class, and Immigration in the Camp Fire Girls
• 4. "There Are Lots of Other Camp Fire Things We Can Do": Disability, Disease, and Inclusion in the Camp Fire Girls
• 5. "Worship God": The Camp Fire Girls, Antifascism, and Religion in the 1940s and 1950s
• 6. Being a "Homemaker-Plus": Gender and the Spiritual Values of the Home
• 7. "Prejudices May Be Prevented": Race, Tolerance, and Democracy in the 1940s and 1950s
• 8. "The War on Poverty Is Being Waged by Camp Fire Girls": The Metropolitan Critical Areas Project
• 9. "It's a New Day": Camp Fire's Reckoning and Restructuring in the 1970s Epilogue: An All-Gender Organization for the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

As the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls' education. A corollary to the Boy Scouts of America, founded just a few years earlier, the Camp Fire Girls became America's first and, for two decades, most popular girls' organization. Based on Protestant middle-class ideals-a regulatory model that reinforced hygiene, habit formation, hard work, and the idea that women related to the nation through service-the Camp Fire Girls invented new concepts of American girlhood by inviting disabled girls, Black girls, immigrants, and Native Americans to join. Though this often meant a false sense of cultural universality, in the girls' own hands membership was often profoundly empowering and provided marginalized girls spaces to explore the meaning of their own cultures in relation to changes taking place in twentieth-century America. Through the lens of the Camp Fire Girls, Jennifer Helgren traces the changing meanings of girls' citizenship in the cultural context of the twentieth century. Drawing on girls' scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and oral history interviews, in addition to adult voices in organization publications and speeches, The Camp Fire Girls explores critical intersections of gender, race, class, nation, and disability.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction
• "The 'Camp Fire Girls' Are Preparing for Sex Equality": Gender Ideals and the Founding Years
• "Wohelo Maidens" and "Gypsy Trails": Racial Mimicry and Camp Fire's Picturesque Girl Citizen
• "All Prejudices Seem to Disappear": Race, Class, and Immigration in the Camp Fire Girls
• "There Are Lots of Other Camp Fire Things We Can Do": Disability, Disease, and Inclusion in the Camp Fire Girls
• "Worship God": The Camp Fire Girls, Antifascism, and Religion in the 1940s and 1950s
• "Being a Homemaker-Plus": Gender and the Spiritual Values of the Home
• Preparing Girls for Democracy: Race and Tolerance in the 1940s and 1950s
• "The War on Poverty Is Being Waged by Camp Fire Girls": The Metropolitan Critical Areas Project
• "It's a New Day": Camp Fire's Reckoning and Restructuring in the 1970s
• Epilogue: An All-Gender Organization for the Twenty-First Century/

"Through the lens of America's first and most popular girls' organization, Jennifer Helgren traces the role and changing meaning of American girls' citizenship across critical intersections of gender, race, class, and disability in twentieth-century America"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Figures List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations List of French Masonic Orders / Obediences Introduction: French Women in Public Space
• Freemasonry Writ Large
• How Else Civil Society - and Freemason Women - Matter
• Chapter 1: Masonry's Gendered Variations Before and After 1789
• The Eighteenth Century's Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges
• Freemason Women's Social Networks in the Old Regime
• Revolution: The Communities of Freemason Women Transformed Chapter 2: The Craft's Long March to Mixed Orders, 1799-1901
• Variations on Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges
• Freemason Women's Changing Social Networks in the Nineteenth Century
• Revolution(s): The Successive Redefinitions of Women's Masonic Communities Chapter 3: Women's Freemasonry and the Women's Movement, 1901-1944
• Renewed Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges at Home and Abroad
• The Feminist Networks of Freemason Women
• The Communities of Freemason Women During Two World Wars Chapter 4: Contestatory Imaginaries: The Representations of Freemason Women
• Serafina, Comtesse de Cagliostro
• Pamina and Balkis
• Consuelo, Comtesse de Rudolstadt
• Diana Vaughan and Others Conclusion: Civic Morality in Modern France
• Themes
• Between Theory and History
• A Social Conscience Appendices Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index .
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France's civil society and its "civic morality" on behalf of women's rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France's modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture. James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society, including the promotion of women's rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women's social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

"A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster-a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical plants, oil spills, pesticides, and concrete. But as their nets came up light, the white shrimpers could only see one culprit: the small but growing number of newly resettled Vietnamese refugees who had recently started fishing. Turf was claimed. Guns were flashed. Threats were made. After a white crabber was killed by a young Vietnamese refugee in self-defense, the situation became a tinderbox primed to explode, and the Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan saw an opportunity to stoke the fishermen's rage and prejudices. At a massive Klan rally near Galveston Bay one night in 1981, he strode over to an old boat graffitied with the words U.S.S. VIET CONG, torch in hand, and issued a ninety-day deadline for the refugees to leave or else "it's going to be a helluva lot more violent than Vietnam!" The white fishermen roared as the boat burned, convinced that if they could drive these newcomers from the coast, everything would return to normal. A shocking campaign of violence ensued, marked by burning crosses, conspiracy theories, death threats, torched boats, and heavily armed Klansmen patrolling Galveston Bay. The Vietnamese were on the brink of fleeing, until a charismatic leader in their community, a highly decorated colonel, convinced them to stand their ground by entrusting their fate with the Constitution. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-published material, including FBI and ATF records, unprecedented access to case files, and scores of firsthand interviews with Klansmen, shrimpers, law enforcement, environmental activists, lawyers, perpetrators and victims, Johnson uncovers secrets and secures confessions to crimes that went unsolved for more than forty years. This explosive investigation of a forgotten story, years in the making, ultimately leads Johnson to the doorstep of the one woman who could see clearly enough to recognize the true threat to the bays-and who now represents the fishermen's last hope"-- Provided by publisher

• Act I : blood in the water
• Act II : the colonel and the felon
• Act III : 90 days
• Act IV : poisoned water

"A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster-a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical plants, oil spills, pesticides, and concrete. But as their nets came up light, the white shrimpers could only see one culprit: the small but growing number of newly resettled Vietnamese refugees who had recently started fishing. Turf was claimed. Guns were flashed. Threats were made. After a white crabber was killed by a young Vietnamese refugee in self-defense, the situation became a tinderbox primed to explode, and the Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan saw an opportunity to stoke the fishermen's rage and prejudices. At a massive Klan rally near Galveston Bay one night in 1981, he strode over to an old boat graffitied with the words U.S.S. VIET CONG, torch in hand, and issued a ninety-day deadline for the refugees to leave or else "it's going to be a helluva lot more violent than Vietnam!" The white fishermen roared as the boat burned, convinced that if they could drive these newcomers from the coast, everything would return to normal. A shocking campaign of violence ensued, marked by burning crosses, conspiracy theories, death threats, torched boats, and heavily armed Klansmen patrolling Galveston Bay. The Vietnamese were on the brink of fleeing, until a charismatic leader in their community, a highly decorated colonel, convinced them to stand their ground by entrusting their fate with the Constitution. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-published material, including FBI and ATF records, unprecedented access to case files, and scores of firsthand interviews with Klansmen, shrimpers, law enforcement, environmental activists, lawyers, perpetrators and victims, Johnson uncovers secrets and secures confessions to crimes that went unsolved for more than forty years. This explosive investigation of a forgotten story, years in the making, ultimately leads Johnson to the doorstep of the one woman who could see clearly enough to recognize the true threat to the bays-and who now represents the fishermen's last hope"-- Provided by publisher

• Domination antillaise et mise en place des enjeux maçonniques internationaux (1738-1834)
• La franc-maçonnerie bordelaise et le monde colonial au XVIIe siècle
• Loges de ville, loges de campagne : la dualité de l'espace maçonnique en Guadeloupe, reflet d'une société créole à l'heure des Révolutions
• Les relations interobédientielles entre Pondichéry et Madras à la fin du XVIIIe siècle
• Les loges de la Barbade, au coeur d'une société esclavagiste en mutation. 1740-1840
• Recompositions et permanences
• Les loges du Grand Orient de France dans les Caraïbes de la puissance au déclin
• Le Grand Orient de France et l'expansion coloniale acteurs et institution (1870- 1940)
• Francs-maçons à Madagascar (1890-1945) ; esquisse d'une approche sociologique
• La presse coloniale et la franc-maçonnerie au XIXe siècle : l'exemple de l'Île Maurice
• Aux marges des empires
• La double problématique des a francs-maçons chinois" dans le pourtour de la mer de Chine méridionale, 1825-1925.

"Dès la fin des années 1730, la sociabilité maçonnique s'impose comme un fait culturel et social majeur dans les colonies françaises et anglaises, au point de résister aux révolutions, puis de réussir à se recentrer au gré de la recomposition des politiques coloniales des XIXe et XXe siècles. Pourquoi et comment les loges maçonniques parvinrent-elles à se diffuser dans les colonies au XVIIIe siècle ? Quel rôle la franc-maçonnerie a-t-elle occupé dans les projets coloniaux que bâtirent les grandes puissances européennes au XIXe siècle ? À quelles difficultés et à quelles négociations nécessaires cette sociabilité née au siècle des Lumières en Europe furent-elles confrontées dans les sociétés coloniales jusqu'aux années 1930 ? C'est à ces questions qu'essaie de répondre cet ouvrage, à travers un voyage qui mènera le lecteur des loges de l'Atlantique à celles de la Chine en passant par les Indes orientales."--Page 4 of cover.

• The Ancient and Honorable Society - Global Growth, Politics and Persecution: The Grand Lodge and Universal Freemasonry - "Lovers of the Liberal Arts and Sciences": Freemasonry and the Scientific Enlightenment - From Noah to Newton: Creating the History of an Ancient Society - Navigating the Masonic Globe: Print Culture, Masonic Communication and Connection in the Eighteenth- Century Atlantic and Beyond - St. John's Grand Lodge Boston: "Masonry in British America has Wholely Originated from Us." - The Grand Lodges' Correspondence: Communication and Connection in the British Masonic Atlantic - Making Headlines: The Craft in the Colonial Press - The Lodge of St. Andrew: "Headquarters of the Revolution" - Revolutionary Boston and Beyond: Freemasonry and the Sons of Liberty - Boston's African Lodge: Hub of the Black Masonic Universe - Freemasonry Across the Black Atlantic - Perfect Scots, Peevish Gauls, and American Republicans: The Far- Flung Masonic Networks of the French Caribbean - Commerce, Connections, and Conspiracy Theorists: Pennsylvania's Grand Lodge of Santo Domingo - Epilogue: "To Vie with the Best Established Republic" - Works Cited - Index.
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This groundbreaking work explores the important role of the 18th century masonic movement in transAtlantic trade, politics, and social development. It offers important new insight into the role of freemasonry in forming international trade networks, its role in organizing resistance to British rule in the American colonies, and masonry's role in the development of Haiti, the wider Caribbean, and the African Atlantic. With special focus on the vibrant international masonic networks emanating from Boston and Saint Domingue, this book explores the formation of commercial and political networks that altered the face of the Atlantic world and the early American republics.
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