A Southern Community in Crisis : Harrison County, Texas 1850-1880.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Torget, Andrew J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Texas State Historical Assn Press, 2016.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	1865-1877 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Texas > Case studies. Economic history Politics and government Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Social conditions Harrison County (Tex.) > Politics and government. Harrison County (Tex.) > Social conditions. Harrison County (Tex.) > Economic conditions. Texas Texas > Harrison County United States Case studies History
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface to the Paperback Edition (2016); Introduction; Part One: The Antebellum Community; 1. The Land and the People; 2. The Agricultural Economy; 3. The Non-Agricultural Economy; 4. Community Institutions and Social Life; 5. Slavery: "The Peculiar Institution"; 6. Antebellum Political Life: Confict within Consensus; Part Two: Secession and Civil War; 7. The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861; 8. The Community at War, 1861-1865.
9. Theophilus and Harriet Perry: "War Makes Its Widows by the Thousand"Part Three: Reconstruction; 10. Presidential Reconstruction: May, 1865-March, 1867; 11. Congressional Reconstruction, March, 1867-April, 1870; 12. Republican Government, 1870-1878; 13. "Redemption," 1878-1880; Part Four: Threshold of the "New South"; 14. Harrison County in 1880: Change and Continuity since 1850; Appendices; 1. The Census Samples of 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880; 2. Non-Heads of Household in the Population Samples; Bibliography; Index.

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