Texas After the Civil War

by Moneyhon, Carl H.

• ISBN13: 9781585443611
• ISBN10: 1585443611
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise. He examines the character of violence in the state as well as the social and economic forces that shaped the response to Reconstruction.

Author Biography

Carl H. Moneyhon is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	3	(3)
Texas in 1865	6	(15)
The Provisional Government, 1865--66	21	(17)
Conservative Resurgence	38	(14)
The Throckmorton Administration	52	(17)
Congressional Intervention and the Politics of Violence	69	(18)
Republican Complexities and the Constitutional Convention of 1868--69	87	(16)
The Election of 1869 and the Question of Legitimacy	103	(16)
The Davis Administration, the Twelfth Legislature, and Politics	119	(19)
Implementation of Republican Programs	138	(17)
Republican Texas	155	(16)
The Collapse of Republican Government	171	(17)
Conservative Triumph, 1873--1900	188	(19)
Notes	207	(10)
Annotated Bibliography	217	(12)
Index	229