Title: Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas /
Authors: Moneyhon, Carl H., 1944-
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Republican Party (Tex.); Texas Politics and government
Abstract: Examines the development of the role of the Republican Party in politics in Texas during the period of social unrest from 1865 to 1874.
Contents: Texas in 1865 -- The Unionist origins of Texas Republicanism -- From Unionism to Republicanism -- Organizing the Republican Party -- Radicals and Conservatives: factionalism and the split of Texas Republicanism -- Texas Republicanism in the state election of 1869 -- The price of the Republican coalition: the Radicals and the Twelfth legislature -- Tyranny, taxes, and corruption: crisis of the Radical coalition -- "We have met the enemy and we are theirs": the 1872 general election -- The last fight -- APPENDICES: Returns on selected elections, 1859-1873 -- Correlation of political and ecological data -- Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1866 -- Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 -- Cluster analysis of the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 -- Bibliographic essay.