Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations

Contents......Page 3
Acknowledgments......Page 5
Introduction: The Shelf Life of Truth in Texas......Page 7
Modernization and Distinctiveness: Twentieth-Century Cultural Life in Texas......Page 37
Texas Mexicans: Twentieth-Century Interpretations......Page 54
African Americans in Texas: From Stereotypes to Diverse Roles......Page 84
Texas Women: History at the Edges......Page 115
Spanish Texas......Page 136
In the Long Shadow of Eugene C. Barker: The Revolution and the Republic......Page 168
Statehood, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1846-76......Page 199
Agrarian Texas......Page 231
Texas Progressivism: A Search for Definition......Page 263
Texas Politics since the New Deal......Page 285
Sunbelt Texas......Page 313
Flight from Modernity: The Economic History of Texas since 1845......Page 344
Contributors......Page 376
Index to Authors......Page 380