Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: Demons of Anarchy
• 1. Antebellum Texas and the Plantation South
• 2. Partisanship and Ideology
• 3. Public Prejudice
• 4. The Other Texas
• 5. Orthodoxy and Ethnicity
• 6. The Frontier
• 7. The Debate over the Union
• 8. Legitimizing Secession
• 9. Stilling the Voice of Reason
• Epilogue: Across the River
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Mrs. Simon Baruch University Awards, 1927–1982
• Index

About the Author

Walter L. Buenger is Professor of History at Texas A&M University.