Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875

This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence,...
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Author: Gary Clayton Anderson
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Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875 by Anderson, Gary Clayton

Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875

Dhs. 356.25

Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875

Dhs. 356.25
Author: Gary Clayton Anderson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing.

The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war.

Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded: by the 1870s, Indians had been driven from central and western Texas.

By confronting head-on the romanticized version of Texas history that made heroes out of Houston, Lamar, and Baylor, Anderson helps us understand that the history of the Lone Star state is darker and more complex than the mythmakers allowed.



Author: Gary Clayton Anderson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 11/04/2005
Pages: 506
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.34w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780806136981


Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 09/21/2006 pg. 63
Multicultural Review 10/01/2006 pg. 68

About the Author
Anderson, Gary Clayton: - Gary Clayton Anderson, Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, is author of The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. His book The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention won the Angie Debo Prize and the publication award from the San Antonio Conservation Society.

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