Lone Star Vistas

Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861

Astrid Haas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2260-4 (ISBN)

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Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it-stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors-members of the region’s three major settler populations-who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, Lone Star Vistas is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers’ particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission.

Astrid Haas is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institute of Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. She is author of Stages of Agency: The Contributions of the American Drama to the AIDS Discourse.

Introduction
Part I. Military-Scientific Exploration

Introduction to Part I
Chapter 1. Assessing El Norte: Mexican Government Expedition Accounts
Chapter 2. Charting the Land: Reports of Anglo-American Explorations of Texas

Part II. Colonization and Settlement

Introduction to Part II
Chapter 3. A Place for Southerners: Travelogues and Anglo-American Colonization
Chapter 4. America’s Italy: Journey Narratives Promoting German Settlement
Chapter 5. Newcomers’ Plight: Travel Accounts Warning against German Migration

Part III. Professional Journeys

Introduction to Part III
Chapter 6. Missionary Messages: Narratives of Itinerant Religious Labor
Chapter 7. Reporting from the Regiment: Journey Accounts of US Army Officers’ Wives
Chapter 8. Professional Pens: Anglo-American Travel Journalism of Texas

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2021
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4773-2260-4 / 1477322604
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-2260-4 / 9781477322604
Zustand	Neuware