Winner of the Tullis Prize for Best Texas History Book

New in paperback Reconstruction to Reform Texas Politics, 1876–1906 by Alwyn Barr New foreword by Hal Williams New preface by the author

In the only full account of Texas politics from 1876–1906, Alwyn Barr looks at challenges to the dominant Democratic Party from the farmer- and labor-based Greenback and Populist parties and examines key debates over land policy, prohibition, and voting rights.

Barr places the colorful politicians, parties, and campaigns within the perspective of national political and economic trends of the Gilded Age and Progressive Period.

He traces struggles by African Americans to maintain their right to vote in the face of white efforts to disfranchise them, setting the stage for twentieth-century court cases.

"Barr's book is apt to be the standard for the period for many years to come."—James A. Tinsley, American Historical Review

First published in 1971 by the University of Texas Press.

ALWYN BARR is the author of many articles and books on Texas history and politics including Black Texans (1973), Polignac's Texas Brigade (1964), and Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Jacinto, 1835 (1990). A past president of the Texas State Historical Association, he is professor and former chair of the History Department at Texas Tech University.

Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

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Reconstruction to Reform
ISBN 0-87074-444-5 paper $14.95s

6x9. 352 pp. 32 b&w photos. 5 cartoons. 2 maps. Bib. Index.
Texas History. Texas Politics.

Publication Date: May 1999.

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