The history of Texas / Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De Leon, Gregg Cantrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvert, Robert A.

Contributor:

Cantrell, Gregg, 1958-

De León, Arnoldo, 1945-

Series:

New York Academy of Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas--History.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The History of Texas is fully revised and updated in this fifth edition to reflect the latest scholarship in its coverage of Texas history from the pre-Columbian era to the present.Fully revised to reflect the most recent scholarly findingsOffers extensive coverage of twentieth-century Texas historyIncludes an overview of Texas history up to the Election of 2012Provides online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; Timeline; 1: Contact of Civilizations, 1521-1721; The Diversity of New World Cultures; The Indians of Texas; The Coastal Indians; The Northeast Texas Indians; The Jumano Indians; The Plains Indians; The Iberian Legacy; The Muslim era and the reconquista; Castile and the legacy of the reconquista; Los Reyes Católicos; Columbus; The conquistadores; Looking for Fortunes in Texas; Competition for the North; Colonizing baggage; Western Texas; Eastern Texas; Settlements; Incorporation

2: Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721-1821Frontier Institutions; Missions; Presidios; Ranchos and the cattle trade; Farms; Towns; Frontier Society; Mestizaje; Social differences; Slavery; Tejanas; Indian Accommodation and Resistance; The Bourbon Reforms; Texas Toward the End of the Spanish Era; Independence from Spain; Resilience; 3: Mexican Texas, 1821-1836; Immigration; The colonization laws of Mexico; Empresario contracts; The Native Mexicans of Texas; Anglos and the Mexican Government; Mexican and American Capitalists; The Law of April 6, 1830, Resisted; Liberals in Power

The Ineffectiveness of the Law of April 6, 1830A Multicultural Society; Anglos; Blacks; Tejanos; Indians; The Centralists Back in Power, 1834-1836; The War for Texas Independence; Causes; Independence won; 4: Launching a Nation, 1836-1848; Republicanism; The Politics of Caution; The Politics of Action; Retrenchment; Demographic Growth; The Rise of Towns; Farms, Plantations, and Ranches; The Texians; The Indians; The Tejanos; Learning and Plain Folks; Transportation; Recognition in Europe; Friction with Mexico; Annexation; The War with Mexico; Causes; War; End of the Lone Star Republic

5: Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848-1865The Texas Economy at Midcentury; Rural growth; Urban industrialization; Transportation; Texas Society at Midcentury; Inequality; Black Texans; Mexican Americans; American Indians; Women; Education; Newspapers and literature; Religion; Texas Politics at Midcentury; Sectional troubles; Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, and Republicans; 1859: A tumultuous year; Disintegration; Who wanted war?; Texas and the Civil War; The Texas front; The Confederate front; Behind the lines; At war's end; 6: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1876

Aftermath of the WarProvisional government and Presidential Reconstruction; The ex-Confederates come to power, 1866-1867; Northern institutions in a vanquished state, 1865-1867; Congressional Reconstruction; The Freedmen's Bureau and the Union army, 1867-1870; The 1869 election; The Davis Administration and Radical Reconstruction; Black Texans During Reconstruction; A Perilous Place in Which to Live; The Indian Displacement; The Rise of the Cattle Kingdom; "Redemption"; The Constitution of 1876; 7: A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876-1886; The Texas Population

The Closing of the Open Range

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-61787-8

1-118-61792-4

OCLC:

865330920