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Life Along the Border
Gonzalez, Jovita. Ed(S): Cotera, Maria Eugenia
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Paperback. Presents a thesis that offers a vision of Texas history and culture. This work presents an analysis that de-emphasizes the role of the Texas Revolution in Texas history and explores the ways in which Anglos and Mexicans developed tense ties following the US-Mexico War. Editor(s): Cotera, Maria Eugenia. Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 b&w photo, 6 tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 213.
The 1929 master's thesis of folklorist, Jovita Gonzalez has served as source material on the Texas-Mexican borderlands for more than seventy-five years but has never before been published. When Gonzalez decided to pursue a master's degree in history from the University of Texas, she was already the vice-president and president-elect of the Texas Folklore Society. Despite this, she wrote a defiant master's thesis that offered a competing vision of Texas history and culture to that promoted by the ""founding fathers"" of Texas folklore. Her complex analysis de-emphasizes the role of the Texas Revolution in Texas history and explores the ways ... Read more
The 1929 master's thesis of folklorist, Jovita Gonzalez has served as source material on the Texas-Mexican borderlands for more than seventy-five years but has never before been published. When Gonzalez decided to pursue a master's degree in history from the University of Texas, she was already the vice-president and president-elect of the Texas Folklore Society. Despite this, she wrote a defiant master's thesis that offered a competing vision of Texas history and culture to that promoted by the ""founding fathers"" of Texas folklore. Her complex analysis de-emphasizes the role of the Texas Revolution in Texas history and explores the ways ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585445646
SKU
V9781585445646
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About Gonzalez, Jovita. Ed(S): Cotera, Maria Eugenia
JOVITA GONZALEZ, who died in 1983, is the author of Caballero, a historical novel published by Texas A&M University Press, and Dew on the Thorn. MARIA EUGENIA COTERA, who earned her Ph.D. from Stanford and now teaches at the University of Michigan, became interested in Jovita Gonzalez as a master's student at the University of Texas.
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