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Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas
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The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people-white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent-were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved. This is a revelatory and essential new narrative of a major turning point in the history of North America.
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"Haynes generously acknowledges the help of librarians and archivists in research, especially during the pandemic."
"A much-needed exploration of the complex racial history of early Texas that won't please the remember-the-Alamo crowd."
"He details how the displacement of the Cherokee and other eastern tribes affected Plains tribes, and delves into the role slavery played in colonial and republican Texas, though his claim that the Texas revolution was spurred in part by Anglo fears that the Mexican government would emancipate enslaved people in the Texian colonies overstates the available evidence."
"But surely this can be done without attempting to rehabilitate the reputation of a mass-murdering dictator like Santa Anna or omitting the details that are necessary to understanding foundational moments in the story of Texas."
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