Böcker av Randolph B. Campbell

Offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labour, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture.

Examines slavery in the antebellum South's newest state and reveals how significant slavery was to the history of Texas. The "peculiar institution" was perhaps the most important factor in determining the economic development and ideological orientation of the state in the years leading to the Civil War.