{"product_id":"9781574419078-two-counties-in-crisis-volume-8","title":"Two Counties in Crisis Volume 8","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeasuring Political Change in Reconstruction Texas\u003cbr\u003eOffers a rare opportunity to observe how local political cultures are transformed by state and national events. Utilizing an interdisciplinary fusion of history and political science, Robert J. Dillard analyses two disparate Texas counties and examines four Reconstruction governors to aid the narrative and provide additional cultural context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Counties in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare opportunity to observe how local political cultures are transformed by state and national events. Utilizing an interdisciplinary fusion of history and political science, Robert J. Dillard analyzes two disparate Texas counties—traditionalist Harrison County and individualist Collin County—and examines four Reconstruction governors (Hamilton, Throckmorton, Pease, Davis) to aid the narrative and provide additional cultural context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Commercially prosperous and built on slave labor in the mold of Deep South plantation culture, East Texas’s Harrison County strongly supported secession in 1861. West Texas’s Collin County, characterized by individual and family farms with a limited slave population, favored the Union. During Reconstruction, Collin County became increasingly conservative and eventually bore a great resemblance to Harrison County. By 1876 and the ratification of the regressive Texas Constitution, Collin County had become firmly resistant to all aspects of Reconstruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55182937260406,"sku":"9781574419078","price":26.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38245806_a0252a99-3a50-4889-94ff-699b130ac72f.jpg?v=1763843735","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781574419078-two-counties-in-crisis-volume-8","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}