Rough Country : : How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State / / Robert Wuthnow.

Tracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's story is also...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 23 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. In Rough Country
  • Chapter 2. For the Advance of Civilization
  • Chapter 3. With Liberty of Conscience
  • Chapter 4. The Fundamentalist Belt
  • Chapter 5. From Judge Lynch to Jim Crow
  • Chapter 6. A Load Too Heavy
  • Chapter 7. Moving Onto the National Stage
  • Chapter 8. Meanest, Dirtiest, Low-D Own Stuff
  • Chapter 9. Power To The People
  • Chapter 10. God Can Save Us
  • Chapter 11. In a Compa Ssionate Way
  • Chapter 12. An Independent Lot
  • Chapter 13. Afterw Ord
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index