Secession and the Union in Texas / / Walter L. Buenger.
In 1845 Texans voted overwhelmingly to join the Union. They voted just as overwhelmingly to secede in 1861. The story of why and how that happened is filled with colorful characters, such as the aged Sam Houston, and with the southwestern flavor of raiding Comanches, German opponents of slavery, and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Demons of Anarchy
- 1. Antebellum Texas and the Plantation South
- 2. Partisanship and Ideology
- 3. Public Prejudice
- 4. The Other Texas
- 5. Orthodoxy and Ethnicity
- 6. The Frontier
- 7. The Debate over the Union
- 8. Legitimizing Secession
- 9. Stilling the Voice of Reason
- Epilogue: Across the River
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Mrs. Simon Baruch University Awards, 1927-1982
- Index