The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic text The History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook looks at how people of diverse politics, identity, class, ethnicity, and race shaped the state’s past and continue to influence its present. Recent knowledge on the political, social, and cultural history of Texas provides insights on the celebrated figures, unsung heroes, and ordinary people of the state’s past. The sixth edition of this classic text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship in all fields of Texas history, among them New Indian History and cultural and gender studies. The text offers fresh perspectives on Texas history, including discussions of the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the Second World War and post-war modernization, and the state’s transition during the 1960s and into the 1980s. Revised chapters provide wide-ranging coverage of Texas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including recent statewide and national elections and political debates. This textbook: Connects events in post-World War II Texas to the larger U.S. historical narrative Offers substantial coverage of events occurring from 1900 to 2018 Uses a chronological approach to divide chapters into easily identifiable eras Includes engaging illustrations, maps, and tables, an appendix, and inclusive lists of recommended readings Features online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more Effectively organized to better meet the needs of instructors, The History of Texas is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Texas history at colleges and universities across both the state and the nation.
Author(s): Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De Leon, Gregg Cantrell
Edition: 6
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 560
City: Hoboken
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
Timeline
Chapter 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
Los Reyes Católicos
Columbus
The conquistadores
Looking for Fortunes in Texas
Competition for the North
Colonizing baggage
Western Texas
Eastern Texas
Settlements
Incorporation
Readings
Chapter 2 Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721–1821
Frontier 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
Readings
Chapter 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, 1830
Multicultural Society
Anglos
Blacks
Tejanos
Indians
The Centralists Back in Power, 1834–1836
The War for Texas Independence
Causes
Independence won
Readings
Chapter 4 Launching a Nation, 1836–1848
Republicanism
The Politics of Caution
The Politics of Action
Retrenchment
Demographic Growth
The Texians
Cultural Regions
The Lower South
The Upper South Region
A Western Colony of Immigrants
The Indian Homeland
The Trans-
Nueces
A Culturally Mixed Corridor
Cultural Continuity and Change
Women in the Republic of Texas
Religion
The Rise of Towns
Learning and Plain Folks
Transportation
Recognition in Europe
Friction with Mexico
Annexation
The War with Mexico
Causes
War
End of the Lone Star Republic
Readings
Chapter 5 Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848–1865
The 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
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
Readings
Chapter 6 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1876
Aftermath of the War
Provisional 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
Readings
Chapter 7 A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876–1886
The Texas Population
The Closing of the Open Range
Sheep and Goats
Violence and Lawlessness
The Return of the Texas Rangers
The Railroads and Economic Development
Public Land
Lumber and Other Industries
Minerals
The Growth of South Texas
Labor Unions
Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century
Plain Living
Agriculture
Education and Other Public Services
Prisons
Education
Politics
Conservative Democratic dominance
The challengers
The Legacy of the Frontier
Readings
Chapter 8 Texas in the Age of Agrarian Discontent, 1886–1900
Economic Change
King Cotton
Manufacturing and urban growth
Growth of the lumber industry
The labor movement
Ethnic Groups in the Late Nineteenth Century
African Americans
Mexican Americans
Europeans and other ethnics
Women in Late-Nineteenth-Century Texas
Agrarian Organizations
Texas Politics, 1886–1900
Populism
Texas at Century’s End
Readings
Chapter 9 Texas in the Progressive Era, 1900–1929
Oil
Urban Growth and Workers
Labor Unions
Agriculture and Rural Life
Farm laborers
Farm women and families
Agricultural improvement efforts
Leisure
Ethnic Texans
African Americans
Tejanos
Other ethnic groups
Texas Politics in the New Century
Progressivism
Governors Sayers and Lanham
Baileyism and antitrust
The Campbell and Colquitt administrations
General progressive reforms
Reform interrupted: The Ferguson administration
Woodrow Wilson, Will Hobby, and World War I, 1917–1919
Women in Action
Woman suffrage
Women’s organizations
Prohibition in Texas
Texas after World War I
The return of progressive administration: Hobby (1919–1921) and Neff (1921–1925)
The Ku Klux Klan, fundamentalism, and the evolution debate
The waning of progressivism, 1925–1931
Readings
Chapter 10 Texas and the Great Depression, 1929–1941
Texans Confront the Depression
State Politics, 1929–1933
The East Texas oil boom
The agricultural depression
The Return of “Fergusonism,” 1933–1935
The New Deal and Taxes
Reviving the banking industry
Recovery and relief measures
New Deal farm programs
Tenant farmers and the New Deal
Minorities During the Great Depression
Blacks and the New Deal
African American social, cultural, and recreational life
Tejanos in the 1930s
Tejano social, cultural, and recreational activities
Women in the 1930s
State Politics, 1935–1938
National Politics, 1935–1938
State Politics, 1938–1944: The End of the New Deal
“Pappy” O’Daniel
Literature and the Arts Prior to World War II
Readings
Chapter 11 War, Prosperity, and Modernization, 1941–1960
Texas and World War II
Politics during World War II
Postwar Politics
Beauford Jester and the Texas “Establishment”
Allan Shivers and the political battles of the 1950s
Texas politics during the Eisenhower administration
Into the 1960s under Price Daniel
Texas Industrialization
Texas Workers and Urban Growth
Labor Unions
Texas Farms
The Texas Family
Texas Schools
Texas Society and Culture at Midcentury
Religion
Leisure activities
Cultural activities
Readings
Chapter 12 Texas in Transition, 1960–1986
The Decade of Johnson and Connally
The 1960 presidential election
The Texas Republican Party after 1960
Texas under Governor Connally
The Johnson presidency
The 1968 elections and their aftermath
Challenges to the White Male Elite for Control of Texas
The Civil Rights Crusade
Black Texans
Texas Mexicans
Efforts at coalition
Texas women
Sharpstown and the End of an Era
The Texas Economy
Toward a Two‐Party State?
Leisure and the Arts
A sporting society
Entertainment, culture, and the arts
Readings
Chapter 13 A New Texas? 1986–2001
The Texas Population in Transition
The Oil Bust and Its Aftermath
Rural Texas in Crisis
Religion in Texas: A Force for Tradition
Texas Culture in the Late Twentieth Century
Music and film
Literature, journalism, and history
Texans at Play: Sports and Leisure
Professional sports
College sports
Recreational activities
The Paradox of Texas Politics
State politics in transition
The Republicans triumphant
The rise of minority‐group politics
Historic Assumptions in Transition
Public education: An ideological and financial battleground
Higher education: A world‐class system?
The challenges of criminal justice
The water dilemma
Protecting the Texas environment
Taxes: A decision deferred
Conclusion
Readings
Chapter 14 Into the New Millennium, 2001–2018
A Changing Population
The Modern Texas Economy
Terrorism, Enron, and recession
Texas and the “Great Recession”
The resurgence of oil and gas
Texas and Mexico
An uneven prosperity
Texas farmers: The end of a dream?
The Changing Face of Urban Texas
Texas Politics in the Twenty‐First Century
Social conservatives and the rise of Rick Perry
Redistricting and party strife
Republicans and the challenges of governing
The rise of the Tea Party
The Abbott-Patrick era and further polarization
Current Issues, Future Challenges
Public education
Higher education
Criminal justice
Water resources
Air quality
New environmental concerns
Poverty
Health care
Taxes
Hurricane Harvey
Conclusion
Readings
Appendix
Spanish Governors of Texas*
Provincial Governors of Texas
Governors of Coahuila y Texas
Presidents of Texas
Governors of Texas
United States Senators
Index
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