Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor James Webb Throckmorton /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
c2008.
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| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Serie: | Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;
no. 17. |
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics
- The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50
- Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57
- The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61
- The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65
- Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66
- "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866
- An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867
- Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73
- The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.