Where the West Begins : Debating Texas Identity /

"Examines the historical debate surrounding Texas's identity: investigates whether Texas, with its heritage of slavery, segregation, and cotton production, is 'Southern' or, with its cowboys, cattle drives, mountains, and desert, is 'Western'"--Provided by publishe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ely, Glen Sample
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International relations.
Manners and customs.
Group identity.
Civilization.
Identite collective > Texas.
Group identity > Texas.
West United States.
Texas.
Southern States.
Texas > Civilisation.
Texas > Moeurs et coutumes.
Texas > Relations > États-Unis (Sud)
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations > Texas.
Texas > Civilization.
Texas > Social life and customs.
Texas > Relations > Southern States.
Texas > Relations > West (U.S.)
Southern States > Relations > Texas.
West (U.S.) > Relations > Texas.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Plainsword
  • Where the West begins
  • Gone from Texas and trading with the enemy : new perspectives on Civil War West Texas
  • Race relations as a barometer of Western identity
  • The "Garden of Eden" and the "Cowman's Paradise" : nineteenth-century myths confront twenty-first century environmental realities in West Texas
  • Texas identity west of the 100th meridian.

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