Alexander Mendoza; Dr Charles David Grear sku-19567425
No rating yet(0 ratings)Texans and War: New Interpretations of the State's Military History is a hardcover in the Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, Series #116. Listed under Alexander Mendoza; Dr Charles David Grear in Military History Books, it brings together studies by fourteen scholars.
The essays cover conflict in Texas from Native American wars before European settlement through the Civil War, as well as Texans' military activity beyond the state. Topics include Tejanos in World War II, Texas soldiers' encounters with foreign enemies, religion, paramilitary groups, and the effects of ethnicity, culture, and gender during wartime. SKU: sku-19567425.
Contents: Introduction, 1, Alexander Mendoza and Charles David Grear. Part I, thematic topics: 1. The Indian Wars of Texas: A Lipan Apache Perspective, 17, Thomas A Britten; 2. Tejanos at War: A History of Mexican Texans in American Wars, 38, Alexander Mendoza; 3. Texas Women at War, 69, Melanie A Kirkland; 4. The Influence of War and Military Service on African Texans, 97, Alwyn Barr; 5.
The Patriot-Warrior Mystique: John S. Brooks, Walter P. Lane, Samuel H. Walker, and the Adventurous Quest for Renown, 113, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.; 6. “All Eyes of Texas Are on Comal County”: German Texans' Loyalty during the Civil War and World War I, 133, Charles David Grear. Part II, chronological conflicts: 7.
Between Imperial Warfare: Crossing of the Smuggling Frontier and Transatlantic Commerce on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1754-1785, 157, Francis X. Galan; 8. The Mexican-American War: Reflections on an Overlooked Conflict, 178, Kendall Milton; 9. The Prolonged War: Texans Struggle to Win the Civil War during Reconstruction, 196, Kenneth W. Howell; 10.
The Texas Immunes in the Spanish-American War, 213, James M. McCaffrey; 11. Surveillance on the Border: American Intelligence and the Tejano Community during World War I, 227, Jose A. Ramirez; 12. Texan Prisoners of the Japanese: A Study in Survival, 248, Kelly E. Crager; 13. Lyndon B. Johnson's Bitch of a War: An Antiwar Essay, 269, James M. Smallwood; 14.
Black Paradox in the Age of Terrorism: Military Patriotism or Higher Education?, 283, Ronald E. Goodwin. Contributors, 297; index, 301.
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