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1 online resource (130 pages) |
| Series |
Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 96 |
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Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 96
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| Contents |
Prologue: Historians of Spanish Texas -- Texas Historians and the Romantic Revolution -- Texas Historians and the Rise of the Lone Star -- Pride Goeth ... before a Fall: History Writing in Antebellum Texas -- Lost Cause: Texas History, 1860-80 -- Every Texan an Historian -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"In this historiography of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chronologies of the state, Laura Lyons McLemore traces the roots of the enduring Texas myths and explains both the purposes and the methods of early historians." |
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"Two central findings emerge: first, what is generally referred to as the Texas myth was a reality to earlier historians, and second, myth has always been an integral part of Texas history |
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Myth provided the impetus for some of the earliest European interest in the land that became Texas. Beyond these two important conclusions, McLemore's careful survey of early Texas historians reveals that they were, by and large, painstaking and discriminating researchers whose legacy includes documentary sources that can no longer be found elsewhere |
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McLemore shows that these historians wrote general works in the spirit of their times and had agendas that had little to do with simply explaining a society to itself in cultural terms." |
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"From Juan Agustin Morfi's Historia through Henderson Yoakum's History of Texas and the works of Dudley Wooten, George Pierce Garrison, and Lester Bugbee, the portrayal of Texas history forms a pattern. In tracing the development of this pattern, McLemore provides not only a historiography but also an intellectual history that gives insight into the challenging culture of Texas and America itself."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-123) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Folklore -- Texas
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Historians -- Texas -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Folklore
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Historians
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Historiography
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Historici.
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Mythevorming.
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Historiography
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Texas -- History -- 18th century -- Chronology
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Texas -- History -- 19th century -- Chronology
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Texas
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chronologies (lists)
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Chronologies
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History
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Chronologies.
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Biographies.
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Chronologies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781603446389 |
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1603446389 |
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