A Complete History of Texas, for Schools, Colleges, and General Use (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Wooten, Dudley G.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Complete History of Texas, for Schools, Colleges, and General Use Notwithstanding more has been written in a desultory way concerning Texas than of any other one American State, a thorough, connected, and systematic history of the country and its people, from the earliest known fact to the latest recorded event, has never been satisfactorily accomplished. It is not pretended that within the limits of a volume of this character the desired object has been fully attained; but it is believed that reasonable success has been reached in giving a very comprehensive and methodical account of the various stages in the development of the district and people embraced within the vast boundaries of Texas. A possible criticism of the book, as a school history, may be urged upon the score of its somewhat elaborate and difficult treatment of some of the topics discussed, especially in the earlier chapters. But upon reflection it is thought this objection is not a serious one. The great defect in all the histories of Texas that have heretofore been published, both for general and school use, has been their meagreness in the treatment of the essential and controlling facts in the early history of the country. Its annals as a Spanish and Mexican province have been presented more in the style of a romantic episode, than as part of a great colonial system whose government and institutions form one of the most interesting studies in the history of modern civilization. So, too, the period of the Revolution and Republic has been treated as a sort of spectacular display of valor and adventure, in which Mexican cruelty, Texan bravery, and the petty details of Indian outrages were of sole importance; instead of viewing these matters as mere incidents in the foundation of a sturdy commonwealth, whose laws and institutions were the natural product of race inheritance and transmitted qualities. It has been the authors idea that a book like this could afford to contain and suggest too much rather than too little. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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