By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Andrew Torget’s Seeds of Empire places the early history of nineteenth-century Texas squarely within the political economy of slavery, cotton, and geopolitics. Torget shows that Spanish Texas had become an utterly dysfunctional polity. A royalist bloody response to the creation of autonomous creole juntas almost led to the annihilation of the Tejano […]
Tejanos through Time
by Emilio Zamora The Texas State Historical Association, the oldest and most important professional organization dedicated to preserving and advancing knowledge about Texas history, recently announced the publication of an eBook entitled Tejanos through Time, Selections from the Handbook of Tejano History. The publication, edited by Emilio Zamora, Professor in the Department of History at […]