Creating Texas
A Brief History of the Revolution
Published on 18. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-1-932113-71-6 (ISBN)
Description
If you found the History Channel's Texas Rising Series interesting, you'll want to round out your understanding of Texas history with Creating Texas. It's history that mesmerizes.
Even today, countless people at large believe there were no survivors of the Battle of the Alamo. This book goes beyond simple documentation to dispel some myths and clarify some of the realities. The authors don't decorate or revise history but rather try to illuminate it, and to show not the shadow but the substance of the subject. Seldom-addressed facts, details and vignettes are woven into the tapestry of the text to tell the entire story of the Texas Revolution, which had its own sweeping and extensive aftermath. In the attempt to pierce the armor and enter the sanctum of early 19th-century personality and character, this book also includes biographical sketches of the major and minor participants - key foreground players as well as everyday background folks, on both sides of this monumental struggle. A special section is devoted to the three most iconic Alamo defenders, often referred to collectively as "The Alamo's Holy Trinity": William Barret Travis, the garrison's 26-year-old commander; David Crockett, one of the oldest combatants to die in the battle; and James Bowie, perhaps the most misunderstood of all Alamo defenders, and a classic, enduring historical example of the common trap in which an exception becomes the rule. As prophets aren't appreciated in their own lands, none of these three men were native to the area but each has become legendary. Those who were part of the Texas Revolution - brave people, young and old, and on both sides of the conflict, who lived and suffered through it and others who died during it - were as alive then as we are today.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932113-71-6 (9781932113716)
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Jeffrey Dane (1943-2015) was a music historian, researcher, journalist, essayist and author. Born in New York, he studied at the Juilliard School (composition) with Stanley Wolfe, Peter Schickele, and Hall Overton. His chamber music has been performed at New York University on commission from the American Music Festival. He has lived in Europe where he spent time in several of the continent's musical centers, and has researched in Germany (Leipzig and Weimar), Switzerland (Zürich), and Austria (Salzburg, Bad Ischl, Gmunden, Baden, Mrzzuschlag, and Vienna, his favorite city). He had a genuine passion for music, its composers, practitioners, history, and literature. He fully acknowledged (and made no apologies for) a marked tendency to develop an almost emotional attachment to the composers, living or not, whose music he studied.
His book, Beethoven's Piano, was published by New York's Museum of the American Piano. He contributed to the following books: Leonard Bernstein - A Life by Meryle Secrest (Alfred Knopf, New York, 1994), to The Composer In Hollywood by Christopher Palmer (Marion Boyars Publishers, London, 1991), to the college textbook Listening To Music by Dr. Jay Zorn (Prentice Hall, New York, 1995), and to Reflections '97 by Basil Tschaikov & Jon Tolansky (Musical Performance Research Centre, Harwood Academic Publishers, London, 1997).
As a historian, and as a relaxing diversion from the norm of routine, he travelled widely and researched and wrote articles having a non-musical focus, on subjects ranging from Goethe to George Washington, antiques, travel, the Alamo and other historic structures (including the Brahms Museum in Mrzzuschlag, Austria, and Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, whose Curator he interviewed and of whom he wrote a profile), essays on the relationships between the independent and the academic scholar, articles about the practical and conceptual difficulties authors face today, and a historical perspective of James Bowie.