This Corner of Canaan : Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell.

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Intorduction; Editors' Preface -- Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman, and Andrew J. Torget; Teacher, Mentor, Friend: A Reflection -- Laura Lyons McLemore; Part I: Texas Identity; Chapter 1. Texas Identity: Alternatives to the Terrible Triplets -- Walter L. Buenger; Chapter 2. History, Memory, and Rebranding Texas as Western for the 1936 Centennial -- Light Townsend Cummins; Part II: Texas Before the Civil War; Chapter 3. José Antonio Pichardo and the Limits of Spanish Texas, 1803-1821 -- Donald E. Chipman; Chapter 4. Sam Houston, Indian Agent -- Carol A. Lipscomb.

Chapter 5. Stephen F. Austin's Views on Slavery in Early Texas -- Andrew J. TorgetPart III: Texas in Civil War and Reconstruction; Chapter 6. Landholding in Brazos County, Texas: Frontier, War, and Reconstruction -- Carl H. Moneyhon; Chapter 7. Soldiering on the Texas Coast and the Problem of Confederate Nationalism -- Andrew F. Lang; Chapter 8. North Texans and Civil War Amnesty: Helpless Instruments in the Hands of Rebellion? Bradley R. Clampitt; Chapter 9. Texas Reconstruction in Popular Memory: What Really Happened in Hill County in 1871 -- Richard B. McCaslin.

Part IV: Texas and the New SouthChapter 10. The Roots of Southern Progressivism:Texas Populists and the Rise of a Reform Coalition in Milam County -- Gregg Cantrell; Chapter 11. African-American Housing and Health Patterns in Southwestern Cities, 1865-1900 -- Alwyn Barr; Chapter 12. Populism and the Poll Tax in Cooke County, Texas -- Mark Stanley; Part V: Texas and the Twentieth Century; Chapter 13. Investing in Urban: The Woman's Monday Club and the Entrepreneurial Elite of Corpus Christi, Texas -- Jessica Brannon- Wranosky.

Chapter 14. Denton County, Texas, and the Draft During the First World War -- Gregory W. BallChapter 15. "Gente Decente": Tejanos Jovita González and Edmundo E. Mireles -- Harriett Denise Joseph, Alix Riviere, and Jordan Penner; Chapter 16. National Ideal Meets Local Reality: The Grassroots War on Poverty in Houston -- Wesley G. Phelps; Contributors' Biographies; Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell's pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassro.

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