Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas - Hardcover

Haynes, Sam W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1541645413 ISBN 13: 9781541645417

Verlag: Basic Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people-white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent-were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved.

This is a revelatory and essential new narrative of a major turning point in the history of North America.

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Sam W. Haynes is Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas Arlington. He lives in Arlington, Texas.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1541645413
• ISBN 13: 9781541645417
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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