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Bezig met laden... The Texas Revolutiondoor William C. Binkley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A good short introduction to the background of the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836. It covers all the bases in a succinct manner. Binkley offers some insights and questions, some of which still have not been addressed in the six plus decades after he asked them. It is not an in-depth narrative of the Revolution, but it is thought provoking, especially if you are well read in the subject already. Binkley basically holds to the Barker line (with less palpable racial animus that stuns modern-day readers) of ethnic conflict: "Fundamentally it was the result if the difference between the racial and political inheritances of the two groups of people who came into contact with each other on Mexican soil" (p. 129). He notes other tensions, but maintains that "we may rule out at once the concept of a conspiracy of interests, whether of slaveholders to incorporate Texas into the United States or of land speculators to create an independent government which they might control" (p. 129). Some other conspiracy theories are added today, like Texas slaveholders who wanted to maintain slavery, all of which are quite popular with modern historians. (They think the same things with the American Revolution: no good motives can be allowed, it must all be bad motives, à la Zinn and every other liberal academic.) Binkley, instead, maintains that: "The immediate cause of the revolution, therefore, was the substitution of centralism for federalism in Mexico and the determination of the Mexican authorities to use force rather than reason to compel an unqualified acceptance of the change" (p. 130). He even notes that most Texas settlers were "reluctant" until "they faced the threat of military interference in the summer of 1835" and "still thinking of themselves as Mexican citizens" (p. 130). A good introduction, still vital for the Texas historian. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Only a scholar as familiar with the Texas Revolution as Professor Binkley could have written this slim volume; anyone else would have used four times the space to tell the same story. Writing against the rich background gained by a quarter century of study, he has produced four connected essays--originally delivered as the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University--which offer the best interpretation of the Texan struggle for independence yet to appear. His achievement is the more remarkable in that he makes no pretence of either offering new materials or writing the entire history of the revolution. Instead, his contribution is to draw new meaning from familiar monographic studies and to give logical order to a sequence of events that have remained chaotic in the hands of many earlier historians."--Ray Allen Billington, Journal of American History (December 1952) Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)976.4History and Geography North America South Central U.S. TexasLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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