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Run For Your Lives! - Gender And The Runaway Scrape

by Linda English

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 <P> The "Runaway Scrape" is, among Texas historians, at once recognizable but often less understood. While shelves of books examine the fall of the Alamo and the revolutionary victory at San Jacinto, surprisingly little sustained attention has been given to the chaotic period from the early to late spring of 1836 when many settlers fled their homes in the face of Santa Anna’s advancing forces. In the final months of the rebellion-turned-revolution, fear of defeat prompted larger questions of what it meant to be a man or woman in an environment of wartime retreat. In <I>Run for Your Lives!</I> historian Linda English opens a new window into the Runaway Scrape, exploring the events and rhetoric through the lens of gender. </P><P> English identifies the central question looming over men and women alike: Were you doing enough to support the rebellion? Texas men faced the pressure to be "manly"—not to turn away or retreat, but to meet the enemy on the battlefield. As demoralizing losses stacked up, the rhetorical appeals of Anglo Texan authorities employed even more fervent language, casting the enemy as depraved and a threat to the innocent women and children of the state. Appeals to masculinity also intensified with fear-mongering references to potential Indian attacks. At the same time, while many women ceded leadership decisions to their male counterparts, an increasing number competed for power and more decisive leadership within refugee groups. </P><P> Accusations of "authoritative" or "brazen" women acting like men and "weak" or "unmanly" men acting like women abounded in an apparent scrambling of gender expectations. But as English argues, "a closer examination of the heated gendered rhetoric . . . indicates that it was delivered with a goal in mind"—recruiting converts and enlistments to the cause. Nevertheless, shifting of attitudes or expectations also proved short-lived. Postwar peace realigned the gender landscape, underscoring the temporary nature of revolutionary gender roles. </P>
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Steeped In A Culture Of Violence - Murder, Racial Injustice, And Other Violent Crimes In Texas, 1965-2020

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 The Texas shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018, which killed ten and injured thirteen, prompted public debate over the causes and potential solutions to this type of violent episode. On May 21, 2018, National Rifle Association president Oliver North declared that a culture of violence is largely responsible for these killings. "The problem that we’ve got is we’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease. . . . The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence." This debate has captivated the American media and general public for decades.<BR /> Texas history is steeped in brutality and bloodshed, creating a narrative that these conditions are still a vital part of the state’s culture in the twenty-first century. But perceptions of violence are often at odds with realities on the ground. Over several centuries, violence has decreased with the development of modern society, but popular perception seems to be that a culture of violence has emerged, and perhaps persisted despite demographic, economic, cultural, and political shifts in Texas.<BR /> Starting from the notion that a culture of violence existed historically in the state and asking if such a culture still persists in modern Texas, this collection of essays examines trends associated with various types of violence within the state as well as social and political responses from 1965 to 2020. This important and timely work provides valuable context for discussions on violence in the past and for the future.
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&Quote;We Want Better Education!&Quote; - The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, And The Quest For Educational Reform In South Texas

by James B. Barrera

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the educational, cultural, and political issues of the Chicano Movement in Texas, which remains one of the lesser-known social and political efforts of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Capitan Chiquito - A Personal History Of An Apache Chief, 1821-1919

by John Paul Hartman

21,13€ + 10% CARD

 Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Great Texas Social Studies Textbook War Of 1961-1962

by Allan O Kownslar

53,00€ + 10% CARD

 Places the controversy over public education and school textbooks in Texas in the context of continued resistance to FDR's New Deal, the election of President Kennedy, and the accelerating civil rights movement, showing how Texas became centre stage for the drama surrounding control of what teachers could teach and students would learn.
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To The Vast And Beautiful Land - Anglo Migration Into Spanish Louisiana And Texas, 1760s-1820s

by Light Townsend Cummins

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author's career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume.
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Civil War On The Rio Grande, 1846-1876

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 To understand the American Civil War in Texas also requires an understanding of the history of Mexico. The Civil War on the Rio Grande focuses on the region's forced annexation from Mexico in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Preserving German Texan Identity - Reminiscences Of William A. Trenckmann, 1859-1935

by Walter D. Kamphoefner e Walter L. Buenger

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of William Andreas Trenckmannâ€™s memoirs as a revealing window into the lives of German Texans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Woolly West - Colorado'S Hidden History Of Sheepscapes

by Andrew Gulliford

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>Winner, 2019 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for the Best Nonfiction Book<BR /> Winner, 2019 Colorado Book Awards History Category, sponsored by Colorado Center for the Book<BR /><BR /> In <I>The Woolly West</I>, historian Andrew Gulliford describes the sheep industry’s place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history—and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive.<BR /><BR /> With vivid, elegant, and reflective prose, Gulliford explores the origins of sheep grazing in the region, the often-violent conflicts between the sheep and cattle industries, the creation of national forests, and ultimately the segmenting of grazing allotments with the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Deeper into the twentieth century, Gulliford grapples with the challenges of ecological change and the politics of immigrant labor. And in the present day, as the public lands of the West are increasingly used for recreation, conflicts between hikers and dogs guarding flocks are again putting the sheep industry on the defensive.<BR /><BR /> Between each chapter, Gulliford weaves an account of his personal interaction with what he calls the "sheepscape"—that is, the sheepherders’ landscape itself. Here he visits with Peruvian immigrant herders and Mormon families who have grazed sheep for generations, explores delicately balanced stone cairns assembled by shepherds now long gone, and ponders the meaning of arborglyphs carved into unending aspen forests.<BR /><BR /><I>The Woolly West</I> is the first book in decades devoted to the sheep industry and breaks new ground in the history of the Colorado Basque, Greek, and Hispano shepherding families whose ranching legacies continue to the present day.</DIV>
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Comanches And Germans On The Texas Frontier - The Ethnology Of Heinrich Berghaus

by Christopher J. Wickham e Daniel J. Gelo

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham now make available for the first time a reliable English translation of this important nineteenth-century document.
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Murder And Intrigue On The Mexican Border - Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, And The Vergara Affair

by John A. Adams

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 The murder of rancher Clemente Vergara contributed to events that put the United States and Mexico on the brink of war and opened the door for expanded American involvement in Mexico. Author John A. Adams Jr. shows how an otherwise commonplace horse theft and murder revealed a tangled web of international relations, powerful business interests, and intrigue on both sides of the border.
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General Alonso De Leon'S Expeditions Into Texas, 1686-1690

by Lola Orellano Norris

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 <DIV>In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has identified sixteen manuscript copies of de León’s meticulously kept expedition diaries. These documents hold major importance for early Texas scholarship. Some of these early manuscripts have been known to historians, but never before have all sixteen manuscripts been studied.<BR /><BR /> In this interdisciplinary study, Norris transcribes, translates, and analyzes the diaries from two different perspectives. The historical analysis reveals that frequent misinterpretations of the Spanish source documents have led to substantial factual errors that have persisted in historical interpretation for more than a century. <I>General Alonso de León’s Expeditions into Texas</I> is the first presentation of these important early documents and provides new vistas on Spanish Texas.</DIV>
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We Never Retreat - Filibustering Expeditions Into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822

by Edward A. Bradley

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>The term "filibuster" often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces.<BR /><BR /> Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography.<BR /><BR /> Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them.<BR /><BR /><I>"We Never Retreat"</I> makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.</DIV>
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Texas Right - The Radical Roots Of Lone Star Conservatism

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>In <I>The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism</I>, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal.<BR /><BR />By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challenge the traditional narrative that emphasizes the right-wing critique of modern America voiced by, among others, radical conservatives of the state’s Democratic Party, beginning in the 1930s. As the contributors show, it is impossible to understand the Jeffersonian Democrats of 1936, the Texas Regular movement of 1944, the Dixiecrat Party of 1948, the Shivercrats of the 1950s, state members of the John Birch Society, Texas members of Young Americans for Freedom, Reagan Democrats, and most recently, even, the Tea Party movement without first understanding the underlying impulses that produced their formation.</DIV>
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Turmoil On The Rio Grande - History Of The Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865

by William S. Kiser

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 In "Turmoil on the Rio Grande," William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-and-tumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing U.S. empire of the West.
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Colonial Natchitoches - A Creole Community On The Louisiana-Texas Frontier

by F. Todd Smith e Helen Sophie Burton

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Despite the community's critical role under French and then Spanish rule, this is the study of its society and economy. It demonstrates not only the persistence of this creole dominance but also how it was maintained. It examines the ethnic cultures present in the town and relations with Indians in the surrounding area.
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Hugo O'Conor - A Shadow Of Ireland In New Spain

by Mark Santiago

~~48,67€~~ 43,80€ 10% OFF

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The Civil War On The Rio Grande, 1846-1876

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 To understand the American Civil War in Texas also requires an understanding of the history of Mexico. The Civil War on the Rio Grande focuses on the region's forced annexation from Mexico in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Red Tom" Hickey - The Uncrowned King Of Texas Socialism

by Peter Buckingham

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 This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. This book is an important contribution to Texas and American history, capturing a moment in time that was the second sustained crisis in American history.
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To The Vast And Beautiful Land - Anglo Migration Into Spanish Louisiana And Texas, 1760sâ€“1820s

by Light Townsend Cummins

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 Gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author's career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume.
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General Alonso De Leon'S Expeditions Into Texas, 1686-1690

by Lola Orellano Norris

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Colonial Natchitoches - A Creole Community On The Louisiana-Texas Frontier

by F. Todd Smith e H. Sophie Burton

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 "Colonial Natchitoches" presents surprising conclusions about the nature of society and commerce in this critical post on the Louisiana-Texas frontier during the colonial era.

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