Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865--1880 - Hardcover

Campbell, Randolph B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807121940 ISBN 13: 9780807121948

Verlag: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR, 1998

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Campbell (history, U. of North Texas) examines how Reconstruction affected and was viewed by people on the local level by separately examining six disparate counties in Texas of the 1860s and 70s. By asking who held key county offices and how much change was brought to conservative whites, freedmen, and pro-union Republicans in the different phases of Reconstruction, the author concludes that the pre-Civil War economic elite were not displaced by Reconstruction as has so often been argued. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Randolph B. Campbell, Regents Professor of History at the University of North Texas, is the author of Sam Houston and the American Southwest; An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865; and several other books. He has won many awards, including the Charles W. Ramsdell Award of the Southern Historical Association and the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize of the Texas State Historical Association.

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Although many historians have studied Reconstruction, few have sought to determine how the turbulent era of reunification and readjustment after the Civil War was played out on a local level. In this work, historian Randolph B. Campbell examines six Texas counties during that period, revealing a diversity of experience that challenges popular generalizations. The counties Campbell explored - Dallas, Colorado, Harrison, Jefferson, McLennan, and Nueces - represent the various regions of Texas and thus its considerable geographic, economic, and demographic diversity. He ponders how the major post-Civil War policies, shaped in Washington and Austin, were interpreted in these outlying areas and thoughtfully measures the degree of change they brought to the lives of all residents - conservative whites, Republicans, and freedmen. Reconstruction at the grass roots in Texas, Campbell asserts, varied greatly from county to county, depending on such factors as demography, economic growth, and the extent of federal intervention. In the case of Texas, and possibly other states as well, Campbell concludes, assumptions about Reconstruction need to be qualified to recognize the distinct ways in which various localities experienced the period. Campbell also dispels common conceptions about Reconstruction, maintaining that whites were hurt far less than is often claimed and that at least one generation of African Americans benefitted a good deal more than is often recognized.

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• Verlag: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807121940
• ISBN 13: 9780807121948
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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