Texas
The Lone Star State
by Rupert N. Richardson, Cary D. Wintz, Angela Boswell
11th Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780367616816 |
| eText ISBN | 9781000403763 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 11th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 510 |
Texas: The Lone Star State, 11th Edition, is an accessible survey textbook that provides undergraduate students of American history with a balanced, scholarly examination of the state's past.
Organized chronologically, the volume traces Texas history from prehistory and its first inhabitants through Spanish exploration, Mexican governance, the Texas Revolution, and early statehood. The narrative continues through secession, Reconstruction, frontier conflicts, and twentieth-century political and urban developments into the twenty-first century.
The volume includes over 100 illustrations and maps, featuring visual resources that show county-by-county results for presidential elections, alongside updated bibliographies.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Land and Its First People
Chapter 2: Spanish Texas -- Exploration and Occupation 1519-1763
Chapter 3: Spanish Texas -- The Last Year -- 1763-1821
Chapter 4: Mexican Texas
Chapter 5: The Prelude to Revolution, 1826-1835
Chapter 6: The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
Chapter 7: The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845
Chapter 8: Early Statehood, 1846-1861
Chapter 9: Pioneer Institutions
Chapter 10: Secession and War, 1860-1865
Chapter 11: Restoring Texas to the Union 1865-1874
Chapter 12: From Reconstruction to Reform 1874-1890
Chapter 13: Cultural Conflict on the Frontier
Chapter 14: The Populists and Progressives, 1890-1910
Chapter 15: Life at the Turn of the Century
Chapter 16: Crusades and Complacency 1910-1930
Chapter 17: The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930-1945
Chapter 18: Postwar Texas, 1945-1963
Chapter 19: The Politics of an Urban Land, 1963-1995
Chapter 20: Republication Texas, 1995-2020
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