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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Monument -- 2. The Brackenridges of Texana -- 3. Los Algodones -- 4. The Renegado -- 5. Federal Treasury Agent, New Orleans -- 6. Frontier Banker, Frontier Town -- 7. Austin's Ill-Fated First National -- 8. Head-of-the-River -- 9. Citizen and City -- 10. An Honourable and Important Place -- 11. Blue against Gray Once Again -- 12. Laying Down and Picking Up the Burdens -- 13. The Biggest Bear Fight in Texas -- 14. For All Time to Come -- Bibliography -- Index

Confederate Artillery Organizations: An Alphabetical Listing of the Officers and Batteries of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 is a remarkable, immensely useful, and exceedingly rare book containing the names of the officers and every Confederate artillery unit. It is so rare that most scholars in the field don't even know of its existence. It was originally published as simply Confederate Artillery Organizations by the U.S. War Department in 1898, one of Marcus J. Wright's compilation aids to help assemble and organize the massive publication that would appear as the 128-volume The War of the Rebelli

The recovery of Watson's thought is particularly valuable. Sibley shows that Watson, an internationally respected philosopher in the early twentieth century, discussed idealism and support for imperialism in ways that are particularly relevant in our new age of empire. A consideration of Grant's relationship to Hegel illuminates what led Grant to declare that Canada was "impossible" in the age of technology. Sibley's comparison of Grant and Trudeau is both unexpected and intriguing. So, too, is his analysis of the "illiberal strands" in Taylor's "politics of recognition."

Intro -- Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- 1. The Sociology of Entrepreneurship -- 2. Race and Entrepreneurship: A Respecification -- 3. "To Seek for Ourselves": Benevolent, Insurance, and Banking Institutions -- 4. Entrepreneurship under an Economic Detour -- 5. Durham, North Carolina: An Economic Enclave -- 6. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Business Success and Tragedy -- 7. The Reconstruction of Race, Ethnicity, and Economics: Toward a Theory of the Afro-American Middleman -- 8. The Present Status of Afro-American Business: The Resurrection of Past Solutions -- 9. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.