| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: drawing the line -- Southern vigilantism and the sectional conflict -- Antebellum dissenters in Texas -- Confederate unionists and the war -- Unionists as dissenters -- Speculators, deserters, and bandits -- Ethnic Texans and the war -- Loyalty and Reconstruction, 1865-1874 -- Black Texans during Reconstruction -- Epilogue: nothing to regret but failure |
| Summary |
Texas, unlike other states of the Confederacy, was virtually untouched by the military campaigns of the Civil War. Moreover, it was home to two considerable ethnic groups Germans and Hispanics who had no traditional ties with the southern way of life. In this book James Marten offers the first general exploration of the shifting relationships among the contending political and ethinic factions in Texas during the sectional crisis of the mid-nineteenth centry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Texas
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Dissenters -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
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Sectionalism (U.S.)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Sectionalism (United States)
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Dissenters
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134271
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Texas -- History -- 1846-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134269
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Texas
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813148038 |
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0813148030 |
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