| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836–1981. By Carlos Kevin Blanton. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. ix + 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

In nineteenth-century Texas the language used to educate children was locally determined. Efforts to impose instruction in English were blunted by the absence of a strong centralized government, enforcement mechanisms, the rugged individualism endemic to frontier communities—and because it was the local community that hired and paid teachers. Thus, Czech, German, Spanish, and other languages were often taught in conjunction with English. Local control of education proved conducive to the development of a bilingual tradition during much of the nineteenth century.

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