Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826311948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Get Book

Book Description
Located in Southwest Collection.

Author: Ernest C. Peixotto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Get Book

Book Description
The author describes his travels through the Southwest, shedding light on the Hispanic heritage and history of the area.

Author: Patrick L. Cox
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292745370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Get Book

Book Description
The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation (some would argue creation) of our state’s past. An anthology of biographical essays, Writing the Story of Texas pays tribute to the scholars who shaped our understanding of Texas’s past and, ultimately, the Texan identity. Edited by esteemed historians Patrick Cox and Kenneth Hendrickson, this collection includes insightful, cross-generational examinations of pivotal individuals who interpreted our history. On these pages, the contributors chart the progression from Eugene C. Barker’s groundbreaking research to his public confrontations with Texas political leaders and his fellow historians. They look at Walter Prescott Webb’s fundamental, innovative vision as a promoter of the past and Ruthe Winegarten’s efforts to shine the spotlight on minorities and women who made history across the state. Other essayists explore Llerena Friend delving into an ambitious study of Sam Houston, Charles Ramsdell courageously addressing delicate issues such as racism and launching his controversial examination of Reconstruction in Texas, Robert Cotner—an Ohio-born product of the Ivy League—bringing a fresh perspective to the field, and Robert Maxwell engaged in early work in environmental history.

Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826306036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Get Book

Book Description
Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.

Author: David C. Beyreis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496222059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Get Book

Book Description
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful Indian tribes, governed territories, became Indian agents, fought against the U.S. government, acquired land grants, and created historical narratives. The Bent family’s financial and political success through the mid-nineteenth century derived from the marriages of Bent men to women of influential borderland families—New Mexican and Southern Cheyenne. When mineral discoveries, the Civil War, and railroad construction led to territorial expansions that threatened to overwhelm the West’s oldest inhabitants and their relatives, the Bents took up education, diplomacy, violence, entrepreneurialism, and the writing of history to maintain their status and influence. In Blood in the Borderlands David C. Beyreis provides an in-depth portrait of how the Bent family creatively adapted in the face of difficult circumstances. He incorporates new material about the women in the family and the “forgotten” Bents and shows how indigenous power shaped the family’s business and political strategies as the family adjusted to American expansion and settler colonist ideologies. The Bent family history is a remarkable story of intercultural cooperation, horrific violence, and pragmatic adaptability in the face of expanding American power.

Author: Dennis Reinhartz
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Get Book

Book Description
In this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated volume edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, five leading scholars in history, geography, and cartography discuss the role Spanish explorers and mapmakers played in bringing knowledge of the New World to Europe. The entradas, of Pánfilo de Narváez and Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca (1527-37), Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1539-42), and Hernando de Soto and Luis de Moscoso (1539-43), into the Greater Southwest of North America were crucial in the dissemination of information and images of the newly discovered lands. The contributors investigate linkages between the early explorers’ experiences, their influence on indigenous peoples, and perceptions of the region as reflected in printed maps of the period. This body of images, which incorporated Indian information, made a powerful impression on the still largely preliterate people of Europe, reshaping their world.

Author: Patricia Kay Galloway
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803271326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Get Book

Book Description
From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume?anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics?investigate broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies and the gradual opening of the Southeast to European colonization.

Author: Alfredo Jiménez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1611921627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.

Author: Roberto Cantú
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527568644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Get Book

Book Description
This volume brings together a number of critical essays on three selected topics: biography, nationhood, and globalism. Written exclusively for this book by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the United States, the essays propose a reexamination of Mexican American cultural history from a twenty-first century standpoint, written in English and approached from different analytical models and critical methods, but free of theoretical jargon. The essays range from biographies and memoirs by leading Chicano historians and studies of globalism during the rule of Imperial Spain (1492-1898), to the modern rise and global influence of the United States, particularly in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Also included are critical studies of novels by Chicano, Latin American, and Caribbean writers who narrate and represent the dominant role played by the United States both within the nation itself and in the Caribbean, thus illustrating the historical parallels and relations that bind Latinos and Americans of Mexican descent. This book will be of importance to literary historians, literary critics, teachers, students, and readers interested in stimulating and unconventional studies of Mexican American cultural history from a global perspective.

Author: Katharine Berry Judson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781981588732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Get Book

Book Description
In these creation and other myths of the American Southwest, collected at the turn of the twentieth century, Katharine Berry Judson has given us valuable insight in to customs and legends of Native-American peoples. The legends come from the peoples familiar to all Americans, such as the Zuni, Pueblo, Navajo, and Pima tribes, as well as from less familiar peoples-the Ashochimi, the Zia, the Tolowa, and others.