Sleuthing The Alamo - Davy Crockett's Last Stand And Other Mysteries Of The Texas Revolution

Informationen zum Autor James E. Crisp is Associate Professor and Assistant Head in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. Klappentext In an engaging narrative format, Sleuthing the Alamo employs a particular archival 'find' in each chapter to show uow the meaning of the Texas Revolution, and especially the Alamo battle, cannot be understood without examining the construction of the histories and myths about the birth of the Texas Republic. Zusammenfassung In an engaging narrative format, Sleuthing the Alamo employs a particular archival 'find' in each chapter to show uow the meaning of the Texas Revolution, and especially the Alamo battle, cannot be understood without examining the construction of the histories and myths about the birth of the Texas Republic.

Product details

• Authors: James Crisp, James E. Crisp, James E./ Davidson Crisp
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2004
• EAN: 9780195163490
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516349-0
• No. of pages: 201
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 13 mm
• Series: New Narratives in American His; New Narratives in American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Texas, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historiography, History of the Americas