Path to a Modern South Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression

Name: Path to a Modern South Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9780292708884

ISBN-10: 0292708882

ISBN-13: 9780292708884

Edition: 2001

Authors: Walter L. Buenger

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Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas, from a poverty-stricken region mired in Confederate mythology into a more modern and economically prosperous part of the United States. By contrast, this history of Northeast Texas, one of the most culturally southern areas of the state, offers persuasive evidence that political, economic, and social modernization began long before the 1930s and prepared Texans to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the New Deal and World War II. Walter L. Buenger draws on extensive primary research to tell the story of change in Northeast Texas from 1887 to 1930. Moving…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Seeing the Whole by Spotting a Part



Foundations



The Fluid and the Constant: Persistent Factionalism, Lynching, and Reform, 1887-1896



Competition, Innovation, and a Changing Economy, 1897-1914



Transformations



A New Political Order, 1897-1912



"Old Ideas" and "Improved Conditions" Law, Custom, and Memory, 1902-1914



An Economic Roller Coaster, 1914-1930



World War I and a Shifting Culture



Women, the Ku Klux Klan, and Factional Identity, 1920-1927



Modernity



Politics and Culture, 1928


Epilogue: Stars and Bars and the Lone Star: Memory, Texas, and the South


Notes


A Comment on Primary Sources


Index