Nicholas Keefauver Roland

Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

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Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans' cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781477321751
• ISBN-10: 1477321756
• Artikelnr.: 60363807

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Roland is a historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the Eve of the Civil War
Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum Politics and the Secession
Crisis
Chapter Three. From Secession to the Nueces River
Chapter Four. Indians, Inflation, and Bushwhackers
Chapter Five. Civil War and Political Violence
Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the Incorporation of the Texas Frontier
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Indian Raiding Deaths during the Civil War
Appendix B. Casualties of Civil War Violence, 1862–1865
Appendix C. Indian Raiding Deaths after the Civil War
Notes
Index