Texas

Paul Barba. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Maps, tables. 474 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0835-4.

Reviewed by Jorge E. Delgadillo Núñez (Harvard University) Published on H-LatAm (November, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

John A. Adams. Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border: Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, and the Vergara Affair. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018. xiv + 211 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62349-584-8. Maurice Crandall. These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorate in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912.

Paul Barba. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Maps, tables. 474 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0835-4.

Reviewed by James Nichols (City University of New York, Queensborough Community College) Published on H-Nationalism (August, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

James Bailey Blackshear, Glen Sample Ely. Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas–New Mexico Borderlands. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2021. ix + 276 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-7560-7. 

Douglas A. Murphy. Two Armies on the Rio Grande: The First Campaign of the US-Mexican War. College Station: Texan A&M University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62349-189-5.

Reviewed by Samuel Watson (United States Military Academy) Published on H-War (February, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Nicholas Keefauver Roland. Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Endowment Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2175-1.

Reviewed by Richard B. McCaslin (University of North Texas) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Robert T. Chase. We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 544 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5357-0.

Reviewed by Nina Nevill (Rice University) Published on H-Nationalism (November, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Jeffrey P. Shepherd. Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. 280 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-434-2; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62534-433-5. 

Cristina Salinas. Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century. Historia USA Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. xii + 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-1614-6. 

Reviewed by Samuel Klee (Saint Louis University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Jerry D. Thompson. Tejano Tiger: José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891. The Texas Biography Series. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2017. xii + 412 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87565-407-2.

Reviewed by Evan C. Rothera (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)