Texas: A History 9780393348699, 0393348695

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and b

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Texas: A History
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Since its publication in 1989, Texas, A Modern History has established itself as one of the most readable and reliable g

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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a majority of the Mexican immigrant population in the United States

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Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the state’s people did live and work

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Inside the Texas State Prison is a surprising story of ingenuity, optimism and musical creativity. During the mid-twenti

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On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched s

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Texas: An Illustrated History covers a lot of history and a lot of ground. Everyone notices how different Texas is from

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A Concise History of Texas is the handy way for native Texans and newcomers alike to quickly find information about a sp

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Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth cent

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“Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the count

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