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Author : Jodella Dorothea Kite
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)
Download or read book A Social History of the Anglo-American Colonies in Mexican Texas, 1821-1835 written by Jodella Dorothea Kite and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Campbell Barker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mexico and Texas, 1821-1835 written by Eugene Campbell Barker and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Republic of Texas written by Clarence Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnoldo De León
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292780545
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book They Called Them Greasers written by Arnoldo De León and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the prejudices of Texans against Mexican Americans and discusses the relations between the white and Mexican inhabitants of Texas
Author : Mark M. Carroll
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029278273X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Homesteads Ungovernable written by Mark M. Carroll and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political enemies derided these marital irregularities, but in fact Houston's legal and extralegal marriages hardly set him apart from many other Texas men at a time when illicit and unstable unions were common in the yet-to-be-formed Lone Star State. In this book, Mark Carroll draws on legal and social history to trace the evolution of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity on the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823-1860). He finds that the marriages of settlers in Texas were typically born of economic necessity and that, with few white women available, Anglo men frequently partnered with Native American, Tejano, and black women. While identifying a multicultural array of gender roles that combined with law and frontier disorder to destabilize the marriages of homesteaders, he also reveals how harsh living conditions, land policies, and property rules prompted settling spouses to cooperate for survival and mutual economic gain. Of equal importance, he reveals how evolving Texas law reinforced the substantial autonomy of Anglo women and provided them material rewards, even as it ensured that cross-racial sexual relationships and their reproductive consequences comported with slavery and a regime that dispossessed and subordinated free blacks, Native Americans, and Tejanos.
Author : Walter Nugent
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400078180
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Habits of Empire written by Walter Nugent and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding, the United States' declared principles of liberty and democracy have often clashed with aggressive policies of imperial expansion. In this sweeping narrative history, acclaimed scholar Walter Nugent explores this fundamental American contradiction by recounting the story of American land acquisition since 1782 and shows how this steady addition of territory instilled in the American people a habit of empire-building. From America's early expansions into Transappalachia and the Louisiana Purchase through later additions of Alaska and island protectorates in the Caribbean and Pacific, Nugent demonstrates that the history of American empire is a tale of shifting motives, as the early desire to annex land for a growing population gave way to securing strategic outposts for America's global economic and military interests. Thorough, enlightening, and well-sourced, this book explains the deep roots of American imperialism as no other has done.
Author : Sean M. Kelley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807138076
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Los Brazos de Dios written by Sean M. Kelley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only slave society to take root under Mexican sovereignty -- made replication of eastern plantation culture extremely difficult and complicated. By tracing the synthesis of cultures, races, and politics in the region, Kelley reveals a distinct variant of southern slavery -- a borderland plantation society. Kelley opens by examining the four migration streams that defined the antebellum Brazos community: Anglo-Americans and their African American slaves who constituted the first two groups to immigrate; Germans who came after the Mexican government barred immigrants from the U.S. while encouraging those from Europe; and African-born slaves brought in through Cuba who ultimately made up the largest concentration of enslaved Africans in the antebellum South. Within this multicultural milieu, Kelley shows, the disparity between Mexican law and German practices complicated southern familial relationships and master-slave interaction. Though the Mexican policy on slavery was ambiguous, alternating between toleration and condemnation, Brazos slaves perceived the Rio Grande River as the boundary between white supremacy and racial egalitarianism. As a result, thousands fled across the border, further destabilizing the Brazos plantation society. In the1850s, nonslaveholding Germans also contributed to the upheaval by expressing a sense of ethnic solidarity in politics. In an attempt to undermine Anglo efforts to draw a sharp boundary between black and white, some Germans hid runaway slaves. Ultimately, Kelley demonstrates how the Civil War brought these issues to the fore, eroding the very foundations of Brazos plantation society. With Los Brazos de Dios, Kelley offers the first examination of Texas slavery as a borderland institution and reveals the difficulty with which southern plantation society was transplanted in the West.
Author : Gregg Cantrell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1625110391
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Stephen F. Austin written by Gregg Cantrell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to offer a reprint edition of Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, Gregg Cantrell’s path-breaking biography of the founder of Anglo Texas. Cantrell’s portrait goes beyond the traditional interpretation of Austin as the man who spearheaded American Manifest Destiny. Cantrell portrays Austin as a borderlands figure who could navigate the complex cultural landscape of 1820s Texas, then a portion of Mexico. His command of the Spanish language, respect for the Mexican people, and ability to navigate the shoals of Mexican politics made him the perfect advocate for his colonists and often for all of Texas. Yet when conflicts between Anglo colonists and Mexican authorities turned violent, Austin’s accomodationist stance became outdated. Overshadowed by the military hero Sam Houston, he died at the age of forty-three, just six months after Texas independence. Decades after his death, Austin’s reputation was resurrected and he became known as the “Father of Texas.” More than just an icon, Stephen F. Austin emerges from these pages as a shrewd, complicated, and sometimes conflicted figure.
Author : Iamblichus
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780867010282
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Anglo-American Texans written by Iamblichus and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1985-12-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnoldo De León
Publisher : Harlan Davidson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mexican Americans in Texas written by Arnoldo De León and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of Mexican Americans in Texas.
Author : Gene B. Preuss
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443746
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book To Get a Better School System written by Gene B. Preuss and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene B. Preuss examines not only the public policy wrangling and historical context leading up to and surrounding the Gilmer-Akin legislation, but also places the discussion in the milieu of the national movement for school reform.
Author : Kenneth L. Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Not Room Enough written by Kenneth L. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589806382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution written by L. Lloyd MacDonald and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, hundreds of hardy frontiersmen from the United States settled in Texas after the Mexican government made them an attractive offer. Fertile land and protection by a fair and stable government was promised to anyone willing to establish a homestead in Texas, and soon more than 25,000 colonists from the United States were in Texas, forging a new life alongside their native-born Mexican neighbors. By 1830, however, Pres. Antonio López de Santa Anna had assumed dictatorial power in Mexico. His policies and those of the new "Centralist" government were enacted to terrify the American colonists (Texians) and Mexicans (Tejanos) who were seeking protection of the rights originally promised to them by the Mexican government. What resulted was the Texas Revolution--the bloody battle for the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto--effectively ending Mexican control of the province and giving rise to the Republic of Texas. Unlike many of its predecessors in the study of the Texas Revolution, this detailed and candid history provides a focused study of the lesser-known frontiersmen and their Mexican allies, along with the women and children they protected. Rich in first-person anecdotes recounting the years leading up to the fight for the Alamo, the days spent within its walls, and its aftermath, this well-informed chronicle pays long-due attention to the often-overlooked contributions by Tejanos as well as the thirty-two volunteers from Gonzales who determinedly sought to defend their rights. Enhanced by maps and illustrations devotedly handcrafted into leather by the author, this volume stands out as a unique examination of the joint struggle of the Mexicans and Americans who sought to overthrow Santa Anna's tyranny in the 1830s.
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
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Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Texas written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Author : Terry G. Jordan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788452
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book German Seed in Texas Soil written by Terry G. Jordan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled. His findings both support the notion of ethnic distinctiveness and reveal the extent to which German Texans adopted the farming techniques of their Southern Anglo neighbors.
Author : Galen D. Greaser
Publisher : Galen D. Greaser
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Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book That They May Possess the Land written by Galen D. Greaser and published by Galen D. Greaser. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That They May Possess the Land: The Spanish and Mexican Land Commissioners of Texas (1720-1836) by Galen D. Greaser (author) The grievances accumulated by Anglo-American settlers in Mexican Texas in the 1830s did not include complaints about the generous land grants the government had offered them on advantageous terms. Land ownership is central to the history of Texas, and the land grants awarded in Spanish and Mexican Texas are intrinsic to the story. Population in exchange for land was the prevailing strategy of Spain’s and Mexico’s colonization policy in what is now Texas. Population was the objective; colonization the strategy; and land the incentive. Spain and Mexico defined the formal procedures, qualifications, and conditions for obtaining a land grant. Colonization was a two-part process involving, first, the relocation of colonists from their place of origin to the new site and, second, the placement of colonists on the land in conditions that would enable them to become productive citizens. The colonization effort featured the use of private recruiting agents – empresarios - to assist with the first task. Government agents - land commissioners –oversaw the second objective. Title to some twenty-six million acres of Texas land, about one-seventh of its present area, derives from the land grants made by Spain and Mexico to its settlers. A land commissioner played a part in every case. The story of the empresarios who contributed to the colonization of Texas is a staple of Texas history, but an account of the land commissioners engaged in this process is given here for the first time. The cast of commissioners features, among others, a Spanish field marshal, a Dutch baron, a cashiered United States army colonel, a philandering state official, a self-serving opportunist, an Alamo defender, and a Tejano patriot. Drawn largely from primary sources and richly documented, this sometimes contentious story of the Spanish and Mexican land commissioners of Texas helps complete the narrative of the colonization of Texas and the history of its public domain. This study is a reminder of another lasting legacy of Spanish and Mexican sovereignty in Texas, their land grants.
Author : Andrés Reséndez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543194
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Changing National Identities at the Frontier written by Andrés Reséndez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.
