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  • Unsettled Land

    From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

    by Sam W. Haynes ...
    A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regionsThe 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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Soldiers of Misfortune

    The Somervell and Mier Expeditions

    by Sam W. Haynes ...
    This historical study offers "a new understanding of the human cost of the [Republic of Texas's] vainglorious attempt to attack Mexico" (Western Historical Quarterly).The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous "black bean episode" in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unfinished Revolution

    The Early American Republic in a British World

    by Sam W. Haynes ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    After the War of 1812 the United States remained a cultural and economic satellite of the world’s most powerful empire. Though political independence had been won, John Bull intruded upon virtually every aspect of public life, from politics to economic development to literature to the performing arts. Many Americans resented their subordinate role in the transatlantic equation and, as earnest ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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    Unsettled Land

    From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

    by Sam W. Haynes ...
    Narrated by Courage ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regionsThe 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 ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Contested Empire

    Rethinking the Texas Revolution

    by Sam W. Haynes, Eric Schlereth, Miguel Soto, Will Fowler, Amy S. Greenberg ...
    Series Book 46 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    To a large degree, the story of Texas’ secession from Mexico has been undertaken by scholars of the state. Early twentieth century historians of the revolutionary period, most notably Eugene Barker and William Binkley, characterized the conflict as a clash of two opposing cultures, yet their exclusive focus on the region served to reinforce popular notions of a unique Texas past.Disconnected from ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The First Amendment in Schools

    A Guide from the First Amendment Center

    by Charles C. Haynes, Sam Chaltain ...
    What are the First Amendment rights? How do you resolve questions about the rights of students, educators, and parents in a school setting?The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the most basic and cherished rights of society--religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly. Anyone who wants to know more about those freedoms in the context of schools will find The First Amendment in ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940

    by John Mason Hart, Nicholas Villanueva Jr., Don M. Coerver, Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga, Linda B. Hall, Francisco E. Balderrama, Jürgen Buchenau, Lewis E. Stephen0, Assad Marti´nez Carlos1, Thomas Benjamin2 ...
    Series Book 44 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.These essays, the result of the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • A Time to Stand

    The Epic of the Alamo

    by Walter Lord ...
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo."Probably the best of all Alamo accounts . . . a history which should last." — The New York Times Book ReviewLooking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering ... ... Read more

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  • Forget the Alamo

    The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

    by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!“Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal“Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston ChronicleThree noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Exodus from the Alamo

    The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth

    by Phillip Thomas Tucker ...
    The award-winning historian provides a provocative new analysis of the Battle of the Alamo—including new information on the fate of Davy Crockett.Contrary to legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo during the Texan Revolution died in a merciless predawn attack by Mexican soldiers. With extensive research into recently discovered Mexican accounts, as well as forensic evidence, ... Read more

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  • The Alamo

    by John Myers Myers ...
    John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Blood of Heroes

    The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation

    by James Donovan ...
    A sweeping, action-packed saga of the legendary last stand at the Alamo, by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory.On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The ... Read more

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