Beyond Texas through time : breaking away from past interpretations / / edited by Walter L. Buenger and Arnoldo De León

• Pubblicazione: College Station [Tex.], : Texas A&M University Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.40072/2
• Soggetto topico: Cultural pluralism - Texas
• Soggetto geografico: Texas Historiography
• Altri autori: BuengerWalter L <1951-> (Walter Louis) De LeónArnoldo <1945->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Three truths in Texas / Walter L. Buenger -- Into the mainstream: the emergence of a new Texas Indian history / Pekka Hämäläinen -- Strange brew: recent Texas political, economic, and military history / Keith J. Volanto -- Why is Big Tex still a white cowboy? race, gender, and the "other Texans" / Michael Phillips -- Deconstructing Texas: the diversity of people, place, and historical imagination in recent Texas history / Carlos Kevin Blanton -- Beyond parochialism: modernization and Texas historiography / Nancy Beck Young.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1991 Walter L. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert compiled a pioneering work in Texas historiography: Texas Through Time, a seminal survey and critique of the field of Texas history from its inception through the end of the 1980s. Now, Buenger and Arnoldo De Le n have assembled an important new collection that assesses the current state of Texas historiography, building on the many changes in understanding and interpretation that have developed in the nearly twenty years since the publication of the original volume. This new work, Beyond Texas Through Time, departs from the earlier volume's emphasis on the dichotomy between traditionalism and revisionism as they applied to various eras. Instead, the studies in this book consider the topical and thematic understandings of Texas historiography embraced by a new generation of Texas historians as they reflect analytically on the work of the past two decades. The resulting approaches thus offer the potential of informing the study of themes and topics other than those specifically introduced in this volume, extending its usefulness well beyond a review of the literature. In addition, the volume editors' introduction proposes the application of cultural constructionism as an important third perspective on the thematic and topical analyses provided by the other contributors. Beyond Texas Through Time offers both a vantage point and a benchmark, serving as an important reference for scholars and advanced students of history and historiography, even beyond the borders of Texas.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond Texas through time
• ISBN: 1-60344-236-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959413403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II