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Choose at least 6 books from the below list and use them to answer the following question:
Using at least six of the readings and up to two articles from the Texas Readings class, discuss Texas from 1821 to 1865.
You must include Texas’s relationship to Mexico and the United States, slavery, and economic ties for the three distinct periods, Mexican Texas, the Republic of Texas, and Texas as a state in the antebellum years.
1). Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Louisiana State University Press, 1989; paperback 1991).
An Empire for Slavery, The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 – Google Play Books
2) Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale University Press, 2008; paperback 2009).
War of a Thousand Deserts, Indian Raids and the U. S. -Mexican War – Google Play Books
3) Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2007; paperback 2009).Santa Anna of Mexico – Google Play Books
4) Kenneth W. Howell and Charles Swanlund, eds., Single Star of the West: The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016).
Single Star of the West, The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845 – Google Play Books
5) C. Allan Jones, Texas Roots: Agriculture and Rural Life before the Civil War (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005).
Texas Roots, Agriculture and Rural Life Before the Civil War – Google Play Books
6 ) Paul D. Lack, The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992).
7) Deborah M. Liles and Angela Boswell, Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence on the Trans-Mississippi (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016).
Women in Civil War Texas, Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi – Google Play Books
8) Raúl Ramos, Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Beyond the Alamo, Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 – Google Play Books
9) Andrew Torget, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
VitalSource Bookshelf: Seeds of Empire
10) David Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 1982; paperback).
11) Ralph Wooster, Lone Star Blue and Gray, Essays on Texas and the Civil War.
Lone Star Blue and Gray, Essays on Texas and the Civil War – Google Play Books
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