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Lone star mind : reimagining Texas history / Ty Cashion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cashion, Ty, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Texas--Historiography.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- xlv, 281 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Examines the pervasiveness of the mythic narrative in Texas history and considers why more modern and inclusive ideas have failed to connect with popular imagination by framing the historiography of Texas as a contest between scholarship and popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Promise and peril beyond the cultural turn
- The traditional mind : Texas identity and the conventional narrative in historical perspective
- The end of Texas exceptionalism : exploded myths, selective memories, and notions of a usable past
- Whistling Dixie and channeling Turner : echoes from the old South and incipient voices of the Texan West
- Who owns the Texas past? The cultural turn and the politics of history
- Texas history on the horizon : parallax views.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806161525
- 0806161523
- OCLC:
- 1035459362
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