Texas: The Lone Star State

ISBN-13: 9780367616816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 498 str.

Rupert N. Richardson; Cary D. Wintz; Angela Boswell

Opis

Now in its 11^th edition, Texas: The Lone Star State offers a balanced, scholarly overview of the second largest state in the United States, spanning from prehistory to the 21^st century.

Spis treści

1. The Land and Its First People  2. Spanish Texas -- Exploration and Occupation 1519-1763  3. Spanish Texas -- The Last Year -- 1763-1821  4. Mexican Texas  5. The Prelude to Revolution, 1826-1835  6. The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836  7. The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845  8. Early Statehood, 1846-1861  9. Pioneer Institutions  10. Secession and War, 1860-1865  11. Restoring Texas to the Union 1865-1874  12. From Reconstruction to Reform 1874-1890  13. Cultural Conflict on the Frontier  14. The Populists and Progressives, 1890-1910  15. Life at the Turn of the Century  16. Crusades and Complacency 1910-1930  17. The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930-1945  18. Postwar Texas, 1945-1963  19. The Politics of an Urban Land, 1963-1995  20. Republication Texas, 1995-2020