The History of Texas

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Calvert, Robert A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Timeline
  • 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
  • Castile and the legacy of 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A Multicultural Society
  • Anglos
  • Blacks
  • Tejanos
  • Indians
  • The Centralists Back in Power, 1834-1836
  • The War for Texas Independence
  • Causes
  • Independence won
  • 4: Launching a Nation, 1836-1848
  • Republicanism
  • The Politics of Caution
  • The Politics of Action
  • Retrenchment
  • Demographic Growth
  • The Rise of Towns
  • Farms, Plantations, and Ranches
  • The Texians
  • The Indians
  • The Tejanos
  • Learning and Plain Folks
  • Transportation
  • Recognition in Europe
  • Friction with Mexico
  • Annexation
  • The War with Mexico
  • Causes
  • War
  • End of the Lone Star Republic
  • 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
  • Religion
  • 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
  • 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

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