The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875University of Oklahoma Press, 2005 - 494 pagini 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. |
Cuprins
At the Dawn of the American Invasion | 18 |
The Texas Creed in a Tejano and Indian Land | 33 |
Mexican Politics and the Struggle to Settle Early Texas | 43 |
The Muddle of Early Mexican Federalism | 59 |
Centralists and the Struggle for Texas Land | 70 |
The Americanization of Texas | 81 |
The Texas Creed and the Clouds of War | 97 |
Revolution and the Rumor of Indian War | 108 |
The Boundary Line Fiasco | 212 |
Limes Politics Depredations and the US Army | 226 |
General Persifor Smith and the Salvation of Texas | 246 |
Reservations or Concentration Camps? | 259 |
The Plan | 285 |
Anarchy and Total War | 302 |
The Final Exodus | 318 |
Indians and the Civil War | 327 |
Indian Intransigence | 127 |
Sam Houston the Legislature and a Failed Indian Policy | 153 |
Lamar His Generals and Ethnic Cleansing | 172 |
The Indians Last Stand in Central Texas | 185 |
The Failure of WellIntended Efforts | 195 |
The Final Ethnic Cleansing of Texas | 345 |
Notes | 379 |
Bibliography | 459 |
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