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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buenger, Walter L., 1951-

De León, Arnoldo, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--Texas.

Cultural pluralism.

Texas--Historiography.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station [Tex.] : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1-60344-236-7

OCLC:

715189029