A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 Tapa blanda - 2016 - 2nd Edición

Paperback / softback. New. Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally destructive conflict. Most of these works focus on events and developments at the national or state level, explaining and analyzing the causes of disunion, the course of the war, and the bitt er disputes that arose during restoration of the Union. Much less attention has been given to studying how ordinary people experienced the years from 1861 to 1876. What did secession, civil war, emancipation, victory for the United States, and Reconstruction mean at the local level in Texas? Exactly how much change-economic, social, and political-did the era bring to the focus of the study, Harrison County: a cotton-growing, planter-dominated community with the largest slave population of any county in the state? Providing an answer to that question is the basic purpose of A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas,… Leer más

Texas State Historical Assn, 2016. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 443 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.