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Texans and War : New Interpretations of the State's Military History.
Beginning with tribal wars among Native Americans before Europeans settled Texas and continuing through the Civil War, the soil of what would become the Lone Star State has frequently been stained by the blood of those contesting for control of its resources. In subsequent years and continuing to th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. Texans Fighting through Time: Thematic Topics; 1. The Indian Wars of Texas: A Lipan Apache Perspective; 2. Tejanos at War: A History of Mexican Texans in American Wars; 3. Texas Women at War; 4. The Influence of War and Military Service on African Texans; 5. The Patriot-Warrior Mystique: John S. Brooks, Walter P. Lane, Samuel H. Walker, and the Adventurous Quest for Renown; 6. "All Eyes of Texas Are on Comal County": German Texans' Loyaltyduring the Civil War and World War I.
- PART II. Wars in Texas History: Chronological Conflicts7. Between Imperial Warfare: Crossing of the Smuggling Frontier and Transatlantic Commerce on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1754-1785; 8. The Mexican-American War: Reflections on an Overlooked Conflict; 9. The Prolonged War: Texans Struggle to Win the Civil Warduring Reconstruction; 10. The Texas Immunes in the Spanish-American War; 11. Surveillance on the Border: American Intelligence andthe Tejano Community during World War I; 12. Texan Prisoners of the Japanese: A Study in Survival.
- 13. Lyndon B. Johnson's "Bitch of a War": An Antiwar Essay14. Black Paradox in the Age of Terrorism: Military Patriotismor Higher Education?; Contributors; Index.