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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Walter L. Buenger. The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2001. Pp. xxvi, 342. Cloth $55.00, paper $27.50.

This book takes a new approach to explaining the connections between Texas and the South. Walter L. Beunger looks closely at eleven counties in the extreme northeastern section of the state during the period 1887 to 1930. He considers the region one of the most southern in the state and the period one of the most neglected by both Texas and southern historians, and he questions the traditional view that nothing of much import happened in the old Confederate states before the New Deal and World War II. He also considers the old question of whether Texas is a southern or western state. 1

Buenger acknowledges the problems in testing his thesis: the diversity, size, and location of Texas, the lack of helpful secondary sources, the contradictory details and incomplete evidence. Thus, he chooses to examine a representative part in search of the whole picture. He looks at the economy, politics, culture, race, and religion of the area. 2

As in the antebellum period, cotton continued to be an important crop, and, as in the South, the labor system shifted from slave to tenant and sharecropping, but more opportunity in other areas offered an escape for dissatisfied workers. Timber, oil, and railroads stimulated the economy, prompting the growth of small cities, merchandising, and small factories. By 1890, Buenger found, the economy of northeast Texas surpassed that of the South, a trend that continued. . . .

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