Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix introduction: south by southwest 1 part฀one Making Texas Safe for the Democracy 1. Redeeming state Government, 1872–74 15 2. Redemption’s second Act, 1874–75: the Judiciary and local Government 36 3. the Ballot Box and the Jury Box: Redeemers and the privileges of citizenship 61 part฀two The Political Economy of Redemption 4. Retrenchment, development, and the politics of public land 89 5. Redeemer democrats and the politics of social Welfare 119 6. the crisis of Redeemer Government, 1878–84 141 conclusion: Redemption’s Final Act 167 notes 179 Bibliography 209 index 223 ...