Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for Crisis: Colonization and Revolution Chapter 2 Prelude: Texas and Mexico at Odds Chapter 3 Act One: Annexation and the Coming of War Chapter 4 Act Two: To the Halls of the Montezumas Chapter 5 Act Three: Conquering a Peace Chapter 6 Encore: Setting the Stage for Crisis
Richard Bruce Winders is a historian and curator at the Alamo.
Remarkably concise and clear, Crisis in the Southwest is the most
student-friendly history of the U.S-Mexican War in print.
*David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University*
Crisis in the Southwest should be required reading for anyone
interested in the turbulent middle years of this nation's history.
It will stand as an important turning point in the study of this
period.
*Donald S. Frazier, McMurry University, author of Blood and
Treasure*
Never before has a modern historian set the events of the Texas
Revolution, the annexation crisis, and the war with Mexico in the
full context of relations between Spain, Mexico, and the new United
States. From the acquisition of Louisiana in 1803 until the breakup
of the Union, Texas was pivotal not only as a place but as an idea,
and Crisis in the Southwest distinguished historian Richard Bruce
Winders explores the meaning of that idea and its impact on three
generations of Americans.
*William C. Davis, History Book Club News, author of Jefferson
Davis: The Man and His Hour and Lincoln's Men*
This concise, crisply written historical survey of the Mexican War
has a special emphasis on the role Texas played as a motivation for
that conflict, and provides a solid narrative overview of the
military aspects of the war written from the U.S. viewpoint. As
such, it constitutes the best one-volume short synthesis of the
Mexican War available to students who wish to know about that
military struggle. It is well-written, provides balanced coverage,
and offers an admirable context for understanding this chapter of
American history.
*CHOICE*
Winders deftly bring together a number of topics that are often the
subjects of individual studies. There is solid background
information for readers who may not be familiar with the persons
and events involved….The book will be useful in a classroom
setting. It comes in a reasonably priced paperback version, and
features a useful chronology and cast of characters. The maps are
excellent. Winders has produced an excellent companion piece for
his earlier Mr. Polk's Army.
*New Mexico Historical Review*
Bruce Winders targets college students and a discerning public
readership in offering up the story of Texas—the rebellious Mexican
province, the beleaguered republic, and the troublesome new
American state—in the context of its interaction with Mexico and
the United States from 1821 to 1850. Students will find useful the
introductory 'Chronology' and 'Cast of Characters.' Chapter-ending
notes are chock full of published primary source material, an the
six page 'Bibliographical Essay' serves to guide those who desire
deeper reading or specialized works that touch upon possible
research topics … crispness characterizes the text, which covers
considerable ground in slightly more than one hundred and fifty
pages. Winders, longtime historian and curator of the Alamo, has
taken on an imposing task and has completed it skillfully. Texas as
a principal component of America's mid-nineteenth-century
turbulence comes through with clarity in this thoughtful,
well-reasoned monograph.
*Southwestern Historical Quarterly*
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