Matamoros and the Texas Revolution

The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social, and military value of the city to Mexican and Texas history.

About the author

CRAIG H. ROELL is a native of Victoria, Texas, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Piano in America, 1890-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 1989) and Remember Goliad! (Texas State Historical Association, 1994). Roell is Professor of Economic, Business, and Cultural History at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, where he was named Wells/Warren Professor of the Year (2002, 2013).

Product details

• Authors: Craig H Roell, Craig H. Roell, ROELL CRAIG H
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780876112601
• ISBN: 978-0-87611-260-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Fred Rider Cotten Popular Hist; Fred Rider Cotten Popular Hist
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous