| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. By Clayton E. Jewett. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. x, 310 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1390-1.)

In Texas in the Confederacy, Clayton E. Jewett uses the Lone Star State as a case study to explicate "an original theory of nation building." With an emphasis on the Texas legislature, he examines how Texas during the Civil War "defined, established, secured, and implemented an identity separate from that of other Southern states" (p. 3).

On February 23, 1861, Texans voted more than 3 to 1 to leave the Union. Jewett points to the failure of the United States government to protect Texans, especially those living on the frontier, from Indian attacks as contributing to secession sentiment. Ironically, the Confederate government would prove no more adept in quelling Indian raids in Texas through treaties than its predecessor in Washington. Thrown back on its own resources, the Texas legislature eventually arrived at an offensive military strategy in dealing with Indians that conflicted with Confederate Indian policy. Jewett characterizes that state action as an important step in fostering the establishment of a separate identity for Texas.

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