Texans and War [[electronic resource] ] : New Interpretations of the State's Military History

• Autore: Mendoza Alexander
• Pubblicazione: College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.009764
• Soggetto topico: Pioneers -- Texas -- Biography; Texas -- Genealogy; Texas -- History -- To 1846 -- Biography; Texas -- History, Military
• Altri autori: GrearCharles David
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 I ; PART 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 Survival ; 13. Lyndon B. Johnson's "Bitch of a War": An Antiwar Essay14. Black Paradox in the Age of Terrorism: Military Patriotismor Higher Education?; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Beginning 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: Teja
• Titolo autorizzato: Texans and War
• ISBN: 1-60344-320-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786261403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University