From its early days as a slave state, to its secession from the Union, to finally admitting that the south had failed, Texas played a major role in the Confederacy and the Civil War.

The office of a state lieutenant governor often fails to evoke images of power, influence, or prestige. However, in Texas the office is regarded by many as the most powerful political office in the state. The Texas lieutenant governor derives his power from several sources, including the Texas Constitution, Senate rules, statutes, and the personality of the officeholder. This work explores the role of the Texas lieutenant governor in the pre-modern period with an examination of the office’s legalistic and pre-statehood roots. Aspects explored include the backgrounds of the men who became lieutenant governor, the power the officeholders exerted during their time in office, and whether or not the office became a platform for future political success. The men who served as lieutenant governor during the first century of statehood for Texas did not have the power enjoyed by their more recent contemporaries. However, some of them laid a foundation for the future by exploiting political opportunities and amending legislative practices. As Texas grew into a modern and urban state, the power and influence of the office of lieutenant governor also grew.

Diss. English and Celtic sections : Uppsala : [1984]. / Bibliogr. p. 157-170. Index. -

This thesis explores the impact of home front and battlefield morale on Texas's civilian and military population during the Civil War. It addresses the creation, maintenance, and eventual surrender of Confederate nationalism and identity among Texans from five different counties: Colorado, Dallas, Galveston, Harrison, and Travis. The war divided Texans into three distinct groups: civilians on the home front, soldiers serving in theaters outside of the state, and soldiers serving within Texas's borders. Different environments, experiences, and morale affected the manner in which civilians and soldiers identified with the Confederate war effort. This study relies on contemporary letters, diaries, newspaper reports, and government records to evaluate how morale influenced national dedication and loyalty to the Confederacy among various segments of Texas's population.

This thesis is a study of the Confederate command problem in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1862.

This study focuses upon the Texas congressional delegation from 1933 to 1938 in an attempt to determine the extent of southern insurgency within that group. Following an examination of the Redeemer-insurgent dichotomy in southern politics since Reconstruction, the thesis analyzes roll-call votes on New Deal legislation concerning agricultural, financial, relief, and labor reform issues to demonstrate that a spirit of southern insurgency existed in Texas politics in the 1930's. The study concludes that Morris Sheppard, Sam Rayburn, Maury Maverick, W. D. McFarlane, R. Ewing Thomason, and Lyndon B. Johnson were politicians in the tradition of southern insurgents. The influence of these men, especially Sheppard, Rayburn, and Maverick, on the passage of legislation reflecting insurgent demands is demonstrated to be significant.

It is the purpose of this thesis to define wherein the social order of the South was disrupted, --- the conditions that brought about such a sweeping transformation of social structures --- and to show the growth of new social attitudes and practices evolving from the chaotic dismemberment of the old. Although primary significance is placed upon changes in the social order, it is necessary to consider certain political and economic trends that were interwoven into the fabric of social life during Reconstruction --- factors influencing, determining, or evolving from, social changes. In the first chapter is sketched briefly the ante-bellum society of the South, and in following chapters is shown the evolution of social culture during the first twelve years following the Civil War.

A tese apresenta uma análise sobre registros visuais produzidos no âmbito da Guerra do Paraguai (1864-1870), evento que envolveu Brasil, Argentina e Uruguai em luta contra o Paraguai, em uma conjuntura de consolidação de projetos nacionais na América do Sul. A natureza histórica do conflito é por si propícia à criação de imagens e imaginários. Além disso, a eclosão da guerra ocorreu em um momento em que o estatuto do olhar estava em debate, aliado a uma intensa transformação das tecnologias de reprodução e circulação de imagens. Nesse sentido, buscou-se compreender as imagens analisadas a partir do regime de visualidade em que estavam inseridas. Ou seja, não apenas quanto ao seu conteúdo aparente, mas em suas relações de produção, circulação, consumo e agenciamento. Fundamentado em indícios sobretudo gráficos, este trabalho intenta desvelar práticas visuais em voga a partir do exame do percurso social das imagens, em seus cruzamentos entre tecnologia e estética. Para isso, são analisados quatro conjuntos imagéticos que suscitam questões distintas, sem induzir uma relação de causalidade entre eles. Dos aspectos principais ressalta-se: um deslocamento de usos e sentidos dos desenhos militares a partir da cobertura feita pela imprensa ilustrada do Rio de Janeiro; a sobreposição do conteúdo científico e militar da expedição ao Mato Grosso, analisada a partir do álbum de desenhos de Alfredo Taunay; a natureza iminentemente múltipla das imagens produzidas para o mercado editorial pelo artista suíço Adolf Methfessel; a emergência dos debates raciais na crítica de arte que acompanhou a Exposição Geral de Belas Artes de 1879, associada à falta de prática de ver e representar o negro nas pinturas de história de grande monta. Do exame de fragmentos visuais da guerra, buscou-se historicizar os modos de ver e de fazer ver de um evento que, dessa forma, se demonstra também produtivo e criador, para além dos efeitos nefastos cujas consequências são sentidas até os dias atuais. / This thesis presents an analysis of visual records produced on the scope of the Paraguayan war (1864-1870), an event in which Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay engaged on a fight against Paraguay, while nationalist projects were being stablished in South America. The historical nature of the conflict is for itself worth of the creation of images and imaginaries. Furthermore, the war outbreak occurred on a time that the constitution of the gaze was under debate, alongside to an intense technology transformation on image reproduction and circulation. In this regard, we aimed to ponder the images trough out the visual system in which they were inserted. In other words, not only concerning its apparent content but also its production, circulation, consume and agency relationships. Primarily based on graphic media, this works aims to unveil visual practices in vogue through the analysis of the social path of the images, and its crossings between technology and aesthetics. This required the analysis of four image sets that raise different questions, with no induction of a causality relation between them. Among their main aspects, we emphasize: a displacement of use and sense of the military drawings by Rio de Janeiro\'s illustrated press coverage; the scientific and military conflict overlap of the Mato Grosso expedition, by the analysis of Alfredo Taunya\'s drawing albums; the imminently multiple nature of images by Swiss artist Adolf Methfessel produced to the publishing market; the racial debate rising on art criticism that followed the General Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1879, associated to the lack of practices of seeing and representing the Negro on great mount historical paintings. We have aimed to historicize the ways of seeing and make to see through the examination of visual fragments of the war, thus, showing its productive and creative side, in addition to the nefarious effects and consequences felt to the present day.

Li Mei-yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-106). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Contents --- p.vi / Introduction: Questions about Reading --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Waiting for Godot and the Issue of Absurdity --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- At the Hawk's Well and the Drama of the Interior --- p.59 / Conclusion --- p.90 / Note --- p.100 / Works Cited --- p.101

Louisiana's Red River region was shaped by and founded on the logic of racial power, the economics of slavery, and white supremacy. The alluvial soil provided wealth for the mobile, market-driven slaveholders but created a cold, brutal world for the commoditized slaves that cleared the land and cultivated cotton. Racial bondage defined the region, and slaveholders' commitment to mastery and Confederate doctrine continued after the Civil War. This work argues that when freedom arrived, this unbroken fidelity to mastery and to the inheritances and ideology of slavery gave rise to a visceral regime of violence. Continuity, not change, characterized the region. The Red River played a significant role in regional settlement and protecting this distorted racial dynamic. Racial bondage grounded the region's economy and formed the heart of white identity and black exploitation. Here, the long arcs of mastery, racial conditioning, and ideological continuities were deeply entrenched even as the nation underwent profound changes from 1820 to 1880. In this thesis, the election of 1860, the Civil War, and emancipation are not viewed as fundamental breaks or compartmentalized epochs in southern history. By contrast, on plantations along the Red River, both racial mastery and power endured after emancipation. Based on extensive archival research, this thesis considers how politics, racial ideologies, and environmental and financial drivers impacted the nature of slavery, Confederate commitment, and the parameters of freedom in this region, and by extension, the nation. Widespread Reconstruction violence climaxed with the Colfax Massacre and firmly cemented white power, vigilantism, and racial dominance within the regional culture. Freedpeople were relegated to the margins as whites reasserted their control over Reconstruction. The violent and contested nature of freedom highlighted the adherence to the power structure and ideological inheritances of slavery. From bondage to freedom, the Red River region remained unreconstructed.