In honoring the heroic legend of the Texas Revolution, generations
of scholars and Texans themselves have cleansed the revolution of
its messier--and perhaps more truly revolutionary--dimensions.
Focusing on the pre-existing causes of the conflict of 1835-36 and
the military execution of the war, they have neglected the
political turbulence, regional disharmonies, conflicts of interest,
social upheaval, and racial and ethnic strife that characterized
the period. This groundbreaking work on the Texas Revolution offers
the first systematic analysis of the event as political and social
history.
This fresh perspective, drawn from exhaustive examination of
primary documents (claims records and land documents as well as
traditional manuscript collections), portrays the Texans entering
their quarrel with Mexico as a fragmented people--individualistic,
divided from one community to another by ethnic and racial
tensions, and lacking a consensus about the meaning of political
changes in Mexico. Paul D. Lack examines, one at a time, the
various groups that participated in the Texas Revolution. He
concludes that the army was highly politicized, overly democratic
and individualistic, and lacking in discipline and respect for
property. With the statistical profile of the army he has compiled,
Lack puts to rest forever the idea that the Anglo community gave an
overwhelming response to the call to arms. He details instead the
tensions between army volunteers and the majority of Texans who
refused military service. Lack provides the most satisfactory
account of Texas Tories yet written and, in a particularly
sensitive treatment of Tejanos, shows the dilemma Texas Mexicans
faced in the conflict. He traces the role of black Texans, the
panic within Texas over slave rebellion, and the problem of runaway
slaves in the Revolution.
For the masses of Texans, Lack convincingly demonstrates, the
Revolution was a time of dislocation and grief that even the
eventual outcome of battle did not heal. This scholarly epic, sure
to become a classic and a model for future research on the
Revolution, shows clearly how the experiences of the years 1835-36
left a new nation burdened by political upheaval, social disorder,
ethnic bitterness, and other consequences of a failed revolution,
all of which helped to define the Texas identity for the future. In
honoring the heroic legend of the Texas Revolution, generations of
scholars and Texans themselves have cleansed the revolution of its
messier--and perhaps more truly revolutionary--dimensions. Focusing
on the pre-existing causes of the conflict of 1835-36 and the
military execution of the war, they have neglected the political
turbulence, regional disharmonies, conflicts of interest, social
upheaval, and racial and ethnic strife that characterized the
period. This groundbreaking work on the Texas Revolution offers the
first systematic analysis of the event as political and social
history.
This fresh perspective, drawn from exhaustive examination of
primary documents (claims records and land documents as well as
traditional manuscript collections), portrays the Texans entering
their quarrel with Mexico as a fragmented people--individualistic,
divided from one community to another by ethnic and racial
tensions, and lacking a consensus about the meaning of political
changes in Mexico. Paul D. Lack examines, one at a time, the
various groups that participated in the Texas Revolution. He
concludes that the army was highly politicized, overly democratic
and individualistic, and lacking in discipline and respect for
property. With the statistical profile of the army he has compiled,
Lack puts to rest forever the idea that the Anglo community gave an
overwhelming response to the call to arms. He details instead the
tensions between army volunteers and the majority of Texans who
refused military service. Lack provides the most satisfactory
account of Texas Tories yet written and, in a particularly
sensitive treatment of Tejanos, shows the dilemma Texas Mexicans
faced in the conflict. He traces the role of black Texans, the
panic within Texas over slave rebellion, and the problem of runaway
slaves in the Revolution.
For the masses of Texans, Lack convincingly demonstrates, the
Revolution was a time of dislocation and grief that even the
eventual outcome of battle did not heal. This scholarly epic, sure
to become a classic and a model for future research on the
Revolution, shows clearly how the experiences of the years 1835-36
left a new nation burdened by political upheaval, social disorder,
ethnic bitterness, and other consequences of a failed revolution,
all of which helped to define the Texas identity for the future.
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