Gone to Texas : a history of the Lone Star State / Randolph B. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Randolph B., 1940- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas--History.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p. ) ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the 21st century, offering an interpretive account of the land, the successive waves of people who have gone to Texas, and the conflicts that have produced 'Texas as metaphor'.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The First Texans 1

2. Exploration and Adventure, 1519-1689 24

3. Spanish Texas, 1690-1779 49

4. Spanish Texas in the Age of Revolutions, 1779-1821 76

5. Mexican Texas, 1821-1835 100

6. The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 128

7. The Republic of Texas, 1836-1846 159

8. Frontier Texas, 1846-1861 187

9. Empire State of the South, 1846-1861 207

10. The Civil War, 1861-1865 239

11. Reconstruction, 1865-1876 268

12. Old West and New South, 1865-1890 290

13. An Era of Reform, 1891-1920 324

14. The "Prosperity Decade" and the Great Depression, 1921-1941 360

15. World War II and The Rise of Modern Texas, 1941-1971 396

16. Modern Texas, 1971-2001 438

Conclusion: Texas in the New Millennium 468.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-771353-X

9786610481026

1-4237-1486-5

1-280-48102-1

1-282-36734-X

9786612367342

0-19-803166-1

1-4237-3614-1

OCLC:

935262276