03514nam 22005173u 450 991046334330332120210414185856.01-60344-320-7(CKB)2670000000336893(EBL)1132634(OCoLC)829459982(MiAaPQ)EBC1132634(EXLCZ)99267000000033689320130418d2012|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Texans and War[electronic resource] New Interpretations of the State's Military HistoryCollege Station Texas A&M University Press20121 online resource (344 p.)Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M UniversityDescription based upon print version of record.1-60344-695-8 CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. Texans Fighting through Time: Thematic Topics; 1. The Indian Wars of Texas: A Lipan Apache Perspective; 2. Tejanos at War: A History of Mexican Texans in American Wars; 3. Texas Women at War; 4. The Influence of War and Military Service on African Texans; 5. The Patriot-Warrior Mystique: John S. Brooks, Walter P. Lane,Samuel H. Walker, and the Adventurous Quest for Renown; 6. "All Eyes of Texas Are on Comal County": German Texans' Loyaltyduring the Civil War and World War IPART II. Wars in Texas History: Chronological Conflicts7. Between Imperial Warfare: Crossing of the Smuggling Frontier and Transatlantic Commerce on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1754-1785; 8. The Mexican-American War: Reflections on an Overlooked Conflict; 9. The Prolonged War: Texans Struggle to Win the Civil Warduring Reconstruction; 10. The Texas Immunes in the Spanish-American War; 11. Surveillance on the Border: American Intelligence andthe Tejano Community during World War I; 12. Texan Prisoners of the Japanese: A Study in Survival13. Lyndon B. Johnson's "Bitch of a War": An Antiwar Essay14. Black Paradox in the Age of Terrorism: Military Patriotismor Higher Education?; Contributors; IndexBeginning with tribal wars among Native Americans before Europeans settled Texas and continuing through the Civil War, the soil of what would become the Lone Star State has frequently been stained by the blood of those contesting for control of its resources. In subsequent years and continuing to the present, its citizens have often taken up arms beyond its borders in pursuit of political values and national defense. Although historians have studied the role of the state and its people in war for well over a century, a wealth of topics remain that deserve greater attention: TejaCentennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M UniversityPioneers -- Texas -- BiographyTexas -- GenealogyTexas -- History -- To 1846 -- BiographyTexas -- History, MilitaryElectronic books.Pioneers -- Texas -- Biography.Texas -- Genealogy.Texas -- History -- To 1846 -- Biography.Texas -- History, Military.355.009764Mendoza Alexander970087Grear Charles David970088AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910463343303321Texans and War2205054UNINA