| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas. The American Crisis Series, Books on the Civil War Era, No. 6. By Bruce Winders. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002. xxx + 172 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $60.00, cloth; $17.95 paper.)

Crisis in the Southwest seeks to respond to two problems relative to early Texas historiography. The first is an overemphasis on periodization. "Texas writers," the book claims, "have tended to concentrate on several apparently distinct episodes in the region's history ... colonization, the Texas Revolution, and the Republic of Texas. Only a few writers have carried the story through to the Mexican War" (p. xii). Such periodization, according to the author, weakens the history student's ability to understand important links in the process of historical continuity. This study hopes to highlight those links. The second problem is one of provincialism. Most historians of the region place "Texas and Texans at the center of all historical events that affected the state and its inhabitants during this period" (p. xii). Such an approach obscures the Mexican role in the struggle over Texas. This study therefore intends to analyze early Texas history from both the Mexican and American side of the southwestern border. . . .

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