Texas divided : loyalty and dissent in the lone star state, 1856-1874 /

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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 gener...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marten, James Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Subjects:
1800-1950
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Texas.
Dissenters > Texas > History > 19th century.
Sectionalism (U.S.)
Dissidents > Texas > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Régionalisme > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Sectionalism (United States)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Dissenters.
Texas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Texas > History > 1846-1950.
Texas > Histoire > 1846-1950.
Texas.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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