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Autore: | Marten James Alan |
Titolo: | Texas divided : loyalty and dissent in the lone star state, 1856-1874 / / James Marten |
Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009 |
©1990 | |
Edizione: | Paperback edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.7/09764 |
Soggetto topico: | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Texas |
Dissenters - Texas - History - 1846-1950 | |
Sectionalism (United States) | |
Soggetto geografico: | Texas History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Texas History 1846-1950 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Drawing the Line; 1 Southern Vigilantism and the Sectional Conflict; 2 Antebellum Dissenters in Texas; 3 Confederate Unionists and the War; 4 Unionists as Dissenters; 5 Speculators, Deserters, and Bandits; 6 Ethnic Texans and the War; 7 Loyalty and Reconstruction, 1865-1874; 8 Black Texans during Reconstruction; Epilogue: Nothing to Regret but Failure; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Sommario/riassunto: | The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantations or her few miles of railroads. Although unchallenged from without, Confederate Texans faced challenges from within -- from fellow Texans who opposed their cause. Dissension sprang from a multitude of seeds. It emerged from prewar political and ethnic differences; it surfaced after wartime hardships and potential danger wore down the resistance of less-than-enthusiastic rebels; it flourished, as |
Titolo autorizzato: | Texas divided |
ISBN: | 0-8131-3361-0 |
0-8131-4803-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910787382403321 |
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