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Title:

Contested empire : rethinking the Texas Revolution / edited by Sam W. Haynes and Gerald D. Saxon ; introduction by Gregg Cantrell ; contributors: Eric Schlereth, Sam W. Haynes, Miguel Soto, Will Fowler, Amy S. Greenberg.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Texas--History--Revolution, 1835-1836.
Texas--History--To 1846.
Texas--Relations--Mexico.
Mexico--Relations--Texas.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
Texas--Annexation to the United States.
Texas--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
Irredentism.

Other Authors:

Haynes, Sam W. (Sam Walter), 1956- editor.
Saxon, Gerald D., editor.
Schlereth, Eric R., author.
Schlereth, Eric R. Voluntary Mexicans.
University of Texas at Arlington, issuing body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. Published on occasion of the 48th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture, held at the University of Texas at Arlington in March, 2013.

Contents:

Voluntary Mexicans: allegiance and the origins of the Texas Revolution / Eric Schlereth -- "Imitating the example of our forefathers" : the Texas Revolution as historical re-enactment / Sam W. Haynes -- Politics and profits: Mexican officials and land speculation in Texas, 1824-1835 / Miguel Soto -- The Texan Revolution of 1835-1836 and early Mexican nationalism / Will Fowler -- "Time's noblest empire is the last" : Texas annexation in the presumed course of American empire / Amy S. Greenberg.

Series:

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; number forty-six

ISBN:

1623493099
9781623493097

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907621720

LCCN:

2015013394

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)