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Autore: |
Calvert Robert A
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Titolo: |
The history of Texas / / Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De León, Gregg Cantrell
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Edizione: | Fifth edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
Disciplina: | 976.4 |
Soggetto geografico: | Texas History |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
De LeónArnoldo <1945->
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Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; Timeline; 1: Contact of Civilizations, 1521-1721; The Diversity of New World Cultures; The Indians of Texas; The Coastal Indians; The Northeast Texas Indians; The Jumano Indians; The Plains Indians; The Iberian Legacy; The Muslim era and the reconquista; Castile and the legacy of the reconquista; Los Reyes Católicos; Columbus; The conquistadores; Looking for Fortunes in Texas; Competition for the North; Colonizing baggage; Western Texas; Eastern Texas; Settlements; Incorporation |
2: Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721-1821Frontier Institutions; Missions; Presidios; Ranchos and the cattle trade; Farms; Towns; Frontier Society; Mestizaje; Social differences; Slavery; Tejanas; Indian Accommodation and Resistance; The Bourbon Reforms; Texas Toward the End of the Spanish Era; Independence from Spain; Resilience; 3: Mexican Texas, 1821-1836; Immigration; The colonization laws of Mexico; Empresario contracts; The Native Mexicans of Texas; Anglos and the Mexican Government; Mexican and American Capitalists; The Law of April 6, 1830, Resisted; Liberals in Power | |
The Ineffectiveness of the Law of April 6, 1830A Multicultural Society; Anglos; Blacks; Tejanos; Indians; The Centralists Back in Power, 1834-1836; The War for Texas Independence; Causes; Independence won; 4: Launching a Nation, 1836-1848; Republicanism; The Politics of Caution; The Politics of Action; Retrenchment; Demographic Growth; The Rise of Towns; Farms, Plantations, and Ranches; The Texians; The Indians; The Tejanos; Learning and Plain Folks; Transportation; Recognition in Europe; Friction with Mexico; Annexation; The War with Mexico; Causes; War; End of the Lone Star Republic | |
5: Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848-1865The Texas Economy at Midcentury; Rural growth; Urban industrialization; Transportation; Texas Society at Midcentury; Inequality; Black Texans; Mexican Americans; American Indians; Women; Education; Newspapers and literature; Religion; Texas Politics at Midcentury; Sectional troubles; Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, and Republicans; 1859: A tumultuous year; Disintegration; Who wanted war?; Texas and the Civil War; The Texas front; The Confederate front; Behind the lines; At war's end; 6: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1876 | |
Aftermath of the WarProvisional government and Presidential Reconstruction; The ex-Confederates come to power, 1866-1867; Northern institutions in a vanquished state, 1865-1867; Congressional Reconstruction; The Freedmen's Bureau and the Union army, 1867-1870; The 1869 election; The Davis Administration and Radical Reconstruction; Black Texans During Reconstruction; A Perilous Place in Which to Live; The Indian Displacement; The Rise of the Cattle Kingdom; "Redemption"; The Constitution of 1876; 7: A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876-1886; The Texas Population | |
The Closing of the Open Range | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The History of Texas is fully revised and updated in this fifth edition to reflect the latest scholarship in its coverage of Texas history from the pre-Columbian era to the present.Fully revised to reflect the most recent scholarly findingsOffers extensive coverage of twentieth-century Texas historyIncludes an overview of Texas history up to the Election of 2012Provides online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more |
Titolo autorizzato: | The history of Texas ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-118-61787-8 |
1-118-61792-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453678803321 |
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