Lone Star
A History of Texas and the Texans
Grand Central Publishing · Print & ebook · April 7, 2000
An insider's history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days.
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- Who it’s for
- A big, readable history that balances cultural context with narrative momentum.
- Genres
- Southwest U.S. History, 20th-Century America, 19th-Century America
- Published
- Grand Central Publishing, April 7, 2000
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An insider's history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy.
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Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds."
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A big, readable history that balances cultural context with narrative momentum.
Come here for
- Texas history with a wide-angle, regional sweep
- Layered explanation that still reads like a story
Expect
- A sustained, substantial read
- Insight without the academic fog
Where it sits
| Southwest U.S. History | 100% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century America | 61% |
| 19th-Century America | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- U.S. Military History
- Southwest U.S. History
- State & Provincial Government
- Authors
- T. R. Fehrenbach
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- April 7, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- U.S. Military History