Description
Book SynopsisThe forces that turned Northeast Texas from a poverty-stricken region into a more economically prosperous area.
Trade Review"This work is a bold step for Texas history. Not only does it advance a fascinating and convincing new argument concerning the forces that shaped Texas history during this era, it also delves into economic and social questions that have remained untouched by past studies... This book has the potential for a wide general readership among those interested in Texas history." Carl H. Moneyhon, author of Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Seeing the Whole by Spotting a Part
- Part One: Foundations
- 1. The Fluid and the Constant: Persistent Factionalism, Lynching, and Reform, 1887-1896
- 2. Competition, Innovation, and a Changing Economy, 1897-1914
- Part Two: Transformations
- 3. A New Political Order, 1897-1912
- 4. "Old Ideas" and "Improved Conditions": Law, Custom, and Memory, 1902-1914
- 5. An Economic Roller Coaster, 1914-1930
- 6. World War I and a Shifting Culture
- 7. Women, the Ku Klux Klan, and Factional Identity, 1920-1927
- Part Three: Modernity
- 8. Politics and Culture: 1928
- Epilogue: Stars and Bars and the Lone Star: Memory, Texas, and the South
- Notes
- A Comment on Primary Sources
- Index
