This corner of Canaan essays on Texas in honor of Randolph B. Campbell / edited by Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman, and Andrew J. Torget.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, |
| Description | xvii, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | McCaslin, Richard B. |
| Other author/creator | Chipman, Donald E. |
| Other author/creator | Torget, Andrew J., 1978- |
| Other author/creator | Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-2022 |
| Contents | Teacher, mentor, friend: a reflection / Laura Lyons McLemore -- Texas identity -- Texas identity: alternatives to the terrible triplets / Walter Buenger -- History, memory, and rebranding Texas as western for the 1936 centennial / Light Townsend Cummins -- Texas before the Civil War -- José Antonio Pichardo and the limits of Spanish Texas, 1803/1821 / Donald E. Chipman -- Sam Houston, Indian agent / Carol A. Lipscomb -- Stephen F. Austin's views on slavery in early Texas / Andrew J. Torget -- Texas in Civil War and Reconstruction -- Landholding in Brazos County, Texas: frontier, war, and Reconstruction / Carl H. Moneyhon -- Spirits of disillusionment: soldiering on the Texas coast and the problem of Confederate nationalism / Andrew F. Lang -- North Texans and Civil War amnesty: helpless instruments in the hands of rebellion? / Bradley R. Clampitt -- Texas Reconstruction in popular memory: what really happened in Hill County in 1871 / Richard B. McCaslin -- Texas and the new South -- The roots of southern progressivism: Texas populists and the rise of a reform coalition in Milam County / Gregg Cantrell -- African-American housing and health patterns in southwestern cities, 1865-1900 / Alwyn Barr -- Populism and the poll tax in Cooke County, Texas / Mark Stanley -- Texas and the twentieth century -- Investing in urban: the Woman's Monday Club and the entrepreneurial elite of Corpus Christi, Texas / Jessica Brannon-Wranosky -- Denton County, Texas, and the draft during the First World War / Gregory W. Ball -- "Gente Decente": Tejanos Jovita González and Edmundo E. de Mireles / Harriett Denise Joseph, Alix Riviere, and Jordan Penner -- National ideal meets local reality: grassroots war on poverty in Houston / Wesley G. Phelps -- Contributors' biographies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012039590 |
| ISBN | 9781574415032 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574415179 (ebook) |