Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I. The Politics of Convergence: Reconstruction, 1869-1873 -- 1. The Contest for the Political Center, 1869-1870 -- Notes -- 2. Republican Factionalism -- Notes -- 3. The Democratic-Conservatives and the New Departure -- Notes -- 4. The Whigs: Fulcrum of Faction and Party -- Notes -- 5. Climax of Convergence: The Election of 1872 -- Notes -- Part II. The Politics of Divergence: Redemption, 1874-1879 -- 6. The Collapse of the Center, 1873-1875 -- Notes -- 7. The Forked Road to Redemption, 1873-1876 -- Notes -- 8. The Return of the Bourbons -- Notes -- 9. The Bourbon Constitutions -- Notes -- 10. The Resurgence of the Agricultural Interest -- Notes -- 11. The Agrarian Reaction -- Notes -- 12. The Democracy Restored and Readjusted -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H -- I-L -- M -- N -- O-R -- S -- T-W -- Y.