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Violence in the Hill Country : The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era / Nicholas Keefauver Roland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477321768
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 976.4/05 23
LOC classification:
  • F392.T47 R65 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the Eve of the Civil War -- Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum Politics and the Secession Crisis -- Chapter Three. From Secession to the Nueces River -- Chapter Four. Indians, Inflation, and Bushwhackers -- Chapter Five. Civil War and Political Violence -- Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the Incorporation of the Texas Frontier -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A Indian Raiding Deaths during the Civil War -- Appendix B Casualties of Civil War Violence, 1862–1865 -- Appendix C Indian Raiding Deaths after the Civil War -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the Eve of the Civil War -- Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum Politics and the Secession Crisis -- Chapter Three. From Secession to the Nueces River -- Chapter Four. Indians, Inflation, and Bushwhackers -- Chapter Five. Civil War and Political Violence -- Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the Incorporation of the Texas Frontier -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A Indian Raiding Deaths during the Civil War -- Appendix B Casualties of Civil War Violence, 1862–1865 -- Appendix C Indian Raiding Deaths after the Civil War -- Notes -- Index

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In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

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