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- ISBN
- 9780684862910
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0684862913
ISBN-13
9780684862910
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44472094
Product Key Features
Book Title
Passionate Nation : the Epic History of Texas
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), General, United States / General
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
30.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-058062
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220926
Reviews
"Intellectually rewarding and highly entertaining...well informed, erudite, and astonishingly comprehensive." -- Houston Chronicle, "A breezy read, shot through with Haley's live-wire personality. And, let's just say, it's not your father's Texas history." -- San Antonio Express-News
Dewey Decimal
976.4
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments Preface Book One: Gold and Souls 1 Smiling Captors 2 The Cities of Gold 3 So Beset with Hardships 4 Imperial Competition 5 Souls Without Gold 6 Love and Booty 7 The Empty Quarter 8 Mission Life 9 Americans 10 Green Flag, Red Blood 11 Strange Bedfellows Book Two: From Empresarios to Independence 12 A Connecticut Yankee in King Ferdinand's Court 13 The Young Empresario 14 Pelts Passed Current 15 Gone to Texas 16 A Finger in the Dike 17 Almost a Black Colony 18 Flashpoint Doused 19 Sam Houston, Late of Tennessee 20 The Quiet Before the Storm 21 Come and Take It 22 Who Will Go with Old Ben Milam? 23 Pretended Government 24 I Am Determined to Die Like a Soldier 25 The New Nation 26 Brilliant, Pointless, Pyrrhic 27 How Did Davy Die? 28 The Ill-Fated Fannin 29 You Must Fight Them 30 The Battle of San Jacinto Book Three: From Nation to State 31 Independence and the Southern Conspiracy 32 A New Country, a New City 33 Poet and President 34 The Sanguinary Savage 35 Retrenchment 36 The Annexation Quickstep 37 Nothing Wanting, Nothing Too Much 38 The State of Texas 39 Life in the Lone Star State 40 Still More Fighting 41 Slavery and Secession 42 A Little Terror 43 The War in Texas 44 Forty Acres and a Mule 45 Scalawags and Carpetbaggers Book Four: Cattle Empire 46 Clearing the Plains 47 Buffalo Days 48 The Red River War 49 Cattle Empire 50 The Populist Movement 51 Life by Mail Order 52 Final Raids 53 Fort Davis: Western Anchor 54 Law vs. Outlaw 55 Political Evolution 56 God Goes Primitive 57 Gaining Culture Book Five: Oil Empire 58 Early Gushers 59 A New Century 60 Valley of the Shadow 61 Intelligent Patriotism and Flying Machines 62 Flappers and Fergusonism 63 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You 64 More Fergusons, and Worse 65 Texas at War, Again 66 Climbing Jacob's Ladder 67 A Flowering of Texas Letters 68 Assassination, War, and Antiwar 69 Changes, Faster and Faste Afterword Selected Sources and Further Reading Index
Synopsis
Texas has become the most American of all the states. Texas's politics has taken over in Washington, and Texas's passionate sense of itself as a nation is echoed by the fervent patriotism of tens of millions of Americans. Texas is also our most outsized hodgepodge -- of Latino, black, white, Asian; of characters who transcend any category. In so many ways, America today is Texas writ large.InPassionate NationJames L. Haley offers a comprehensive and definitive history of this singular and singularly American state, a history that explains how Texas became Texas, even before it became such a central national symbol for America. Haley peers through the lens of the extraordinary "ordinary" men and women who have streamed to Texas from its beginnings, and created it in their own contradictory, uncontrollable image.He recovers elements bowdlerized by previous and more prudish generations, such as the discovery, by sixteenth-century explorer Cabeza de Vaca, of Indian warriors living in conjugal relationships with male eunuchs. He presents documents never before published, such as a rare appeal for aid from the town of Gonzales on the eve of the Texas Revolution. He restores to the history important figures who have been allowed to drop from the usual recitation, such as Benjamin Lundy, who almost single-handedly prevented the Texas Republic from being annexed to the United States for nearly a decade. He corrects the record at every turn, starting with the fact that Jane Lundy was not the "mother of Texas." Throughout, he uses great stories to present the passion of people who lived and worried and suffered and laughed.The first Indians settled in Texas in about 10,000 B.C.; the first Europeans arrived in the early sixteenth century. Since then, the land that is now Texas has belonged to six powers at eight different times: Spain (1519-1685), France (to 1690), Spain again (to 1821), Mexico (to 1836), the Republic of Texas (to 1845), the U.S.A. (to 1861), the Confederacy (to 1865), and the U.S.A. to stay. From Jim Bowie's and Davy Crockett's myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo to the Mexican-American War to Sam Houston's heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the "normal" periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation, a history that shows that circumstances can radically change, yet culture and character can last for centuries., Texas has become the most American of all the states. Texas's politics has taken over in Washington, and Texas's passionate sense of itself as a nation is echoed by the fervent patriotism of tens of millions of Americans. Texas is also our most outsized hodgepodge -- of Latino, black, white, Asian; of characters who transcend any category. In so many ways, America today is Texas writ large. In Passionate Nation James L. Haley offers a comprehensive and definitive history of this singular and singularly American state, a history that explains how Texas became Texas, even before it became such a central national symbol for America. Haley peers through the lens of the extraordinary "ordinary" men and women who have streamed to Texas from its beginnings, and created it in their own contradictory, uncontrollable image. He recovers elements bowdlerized by previous and more prudish generations, such as the discovery, by sixteenth-century explorer Cabeza de Vaca, of Indian warriors living in conjugal relationships with male eunuchs. He presents documents never before published, such as a rare appeal for aid from the town of Gonzales on the eve of the Texas Revolution. He restores to the history important figures who have been allowed to drop from the usual recitation, such as Benjamin Lundy, who almost single-handedly prevented the Texas Republic from being annexed to the United States for nearly a decade. He corrects the record at every turn, starting with the fact that Jane Lundy was not the "mother of Texas." Throughout, he uses great stories to present the passion of people who lived and worried and suffered and laughed. The first Indians settled in Texas in about 10,000 B.C.; the first Europeans arrived in the early sixteenth century. Since then, the land that is now Texas has belonged to six powers at eight different times: Spain (1519-1685), France (to 1690), Spain again (to 1821), Mexico (to 1836), the Republic of Texas (to 1845), the U.S.A. (to 1861), the Confederacy (to 1865), and the U.S.A. to stay. From Jim Bowie's and Davy Crockett's myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo to the Mexican-American War to Sam Houston's heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the "normal" periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation, a history that shows that circumstances can radically change, yet culture and character can last for centuries.
LC Classification Number
F386.H2355 2006
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