Research Catalog

Title

Discovering Texas history / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz.

Publication

• Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glasrud, Bruce A.
• Cummins, Light Townsend.
• Wintz, Cary D., 1943-

Description

vii, 343 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"'Discovering Texas History' is a historiographical reference book that will be invaluable to teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Chapter authors are familiar names in Texas history circles--a 'who's who' of high profile historians. Conceived as a follow-up to the award winning (but increasingly dated) 'A Guide the History of Texas' (1988), 'Discovering Texas History' focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990. In part one, topical essays address significant historical themes, from race and gender to the arts and urban history. In part two, chronological essays cover the full span of Texas historiography from the Spanish era to the modern day. In each case, the goal is to analyze and summarize the subjects that have captured the attention of professional historians so that 'Discovering Texas History' will take its place as the standard work on the history of Texas history"--

Subject

• Texas > History
• Texas

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

PART I. TOPICAL ESSAYS. Texas history considered / Light Townsend Cummins, Bruce A. Glasrud, and Cary D. Wintz -- Native Americans / Matthew M. Babcock -- Mexican Americans / Arnoldo De León -- African Americans / Alwyn Barr -- Texas women / Rebecca Sharpless -- European immigrant history in the nineteenth century / James C. Kearney -- Literature, the visual arts, and music in Texas / Victoria H. Cummins and Light Townsend Cummins -- Texas urban history / Richard B. Wright -- Texas military history / Richard B. McCaslin -- PART II. CHRONOLOGICAL ESSAYS. Spanish, Mexican, and Republican Texas to 1845 / F. Todd Smith -- Antebellum Texas, 1846-1860 / Randolph B. Campbell -- Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas, 1861-1874 / Carl H. Moneyhon -- Reformers, populists, and progressives, 1875-1915 / Jessica Brannon-Wranosky -- World War I through World War II / Patrick Cox -- Modernizing Texas, 1946-1980 / Sean P. Cunningham -- Recent Texas, 1981 to the present / Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz.

Call Number

JFE 16-11615

ISBN

• 9780806146195
• 0806146192

LCCN

• 2014010703
• 40024150046

OCLC

875240153

Title

Discovering Texas history / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz.

Publisher

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Note

COLLECTION OF NEW ESSAYS DEPICT TEXAS HISTORY FROM 19TH-20TH CENTURY.

Added Author

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Cummins, Light Townsend.

Wintz, Cary D., 1943-

Other Standard Identifier

40024150046

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11615