Violence In The Hill Country

Author : Nicholas Keefauver Roland
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321756
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in the Hill Country written by Nicholas Keefauver Roland and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

Author : Roy DeBerry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496828852
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country written by Roy DeBerry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors’ approach places the region’s history in context and reveals everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s and ’50s. One of the first Mississippi counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos covering more than a century’s worth of history, the volume presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving for the prize of equality and justice.

Author : David D. Johnson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412043
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War, 1874-1902 written by David D. Johnson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting story of ethnic strife, human frailty, betrayal, vengeance, and the harrowing repercussions of mob justice.

Author : Jefferson Morgenthaler
Publisher : Mockingbird Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932801262
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country written by Jefferson Morgenthaler and published by Mockingbird Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country. Refugees from economic and social strife in Germany, followed by idealistic communalists and liberal political refugees, came to the Hill Country looking for freedom and opportunity. Landing on the windswept shores of Matagorda Bay, they traced a path across the plains, seeking a future in the hills beyond. There they found a raw, untamed realm where few but Comanches dared go. Reaching for a promised land beyond the Llano River, the earliest immigrants soon realized that their dream was beyond their grasp, and had no choice but to adapt to the realities of the Texas frontier. Some fared well. Others succumbed to disease, injury, hunger and violence. Most stayed, but some retreated to less challenging locales. A remarkable few established outposts of intellectual fervor in pioneer settlements, debating the great ideas of the day in drafty log cabins. Bringing with them traditions and perspectives rooted in the feudal and despotic European past, the Germans learned to adjust to Texan and American notions, only to find themselves divided by the great controversy over slavery and secession. This is a story of hardy, industrious people transplanted into the most challenging of circumstances. It is a story of Texan pioneers.

Author : Jefferson Morgenthaler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534883918
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country written by Jefferson Morgenthaler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country. Refugees from economic and social strife in Germany, followed by idealistic communalists and liberal political refugees, came to the Hill Country looking for freedom and opportunity. Landing on the windswept shores of Matagorda Bay, they traced a path across the plains, seeking a future in the hills beyond. There they found a raw, untamed realm where few but Comanches dared go. Reaching for a promised land beyond the Llano River, the earliest immigrants soon realized that their dream was beyond their grasp, and had no choice but to adapt to the realities of the Texas frontier. Some fared well. Others succumbed to disease, injury, hunger and violence. Most stayed, but some retreated to less challenging locales. A remarkable few established outposts of intellectual fervor in pioneer settlements, debating the great ideas of the day in drafty log cabins. Bringing with them traditions and perspectives rooted in the feudal and despotic European past, the Germans learned to adjust to Texan and American notions, only to find themselves divided by the great controversy over slavery and secession. This is a story of hardy, industrious people transplanted into the most challenging of circumstances. It is a story of Texan pioneers.

Author : Clay Coppedge
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781596299801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hill Country Chronicles written by Clay Coppedge and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Hill Country is a rugged and hilly area of central Texas known for its food, architecture and unique melting pot of Spanish and European settlers. The area's rich history is filled with quirky and fascinating tales about this landscape and the animals and people who have called it home. Clay Coppedge has been gathering Texas stories for over thirty years. This collection of his favorite columns includes his best Texas-sized stories on Hill Country history. From the legend of Llano's Enchanted Rock and the true story of Jim Bowie's famous knife to one rancher's attempt at bringing reindeer to the hottest area of the country and an oilman's search for Bigfoot, Hill Country Chronicles has them all and more.

Author : M'lou Dietzer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465344519
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Hill Country written by M'lou Dietzer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on actual events-a few the author personally experienced plus others made possible with the help of "google". All locations, police and court procedures, weapons and so on are real. All of the characters are fictional but some are based on people the author has known in the past. The book begins in 1995 and chronicles about ten years in and around San Antonio, Texas. This book is written as a series of short stories and may be read as such; the chapters travel in real time. The book contains no profanity, overt sex or graphic violence.

Author : Ira Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781456818784
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Enchanted Rock written by Ira Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kumudini Samuel
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786996138
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women written by Kumudini Samuel and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women shows how political, economic, social and ideological processes intersect to shape conflict related gender-based violence against women. Through feminist interrogations of the politics of economies, struggles for political power and the gender order, this collection reveals how sexual orders and regimes are linked to spaces of production. Crucially it argues that these spaces are themselves firmly anchored in overlapping patriarchies which are sustained and reproduced during and after war through violence that is physical as well as structural. Through an analysis of legal regimes and structures of social arrangements, this book frames militarization as a political economic dynamic, developing a radical critique of liberal peace building and peace making that does not challenge patriarchy, or modes of production and accumulation.

Author : S. Janaka Biyanwila
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136904263
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Labour Movement in the Global South written by S. Janaka Biyanwila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the on-going debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals their gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.