Beyond Texas Through Time

In 1991 Walter L. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert compiled a pioneering work in Texas historiography: Texas Through Time,a seminal survey and critique of the field of Texas history from its inception through the end of the 1980s. Now, Buenger and Arnoldo De Le#xF3;n have assembled an important new collection that assesses the current state of Texas historiography, building on the many changes in understanding and interpretation that have developed in the nearly twenty years since the publication of the original volume. This new work, Beyond Texas Through Time,departs from the earlier volume#x19;s emphasis on the dichotomy between traditionalism and revisionism as they applied to various eras. Instead, the studies in this book consider the topical and thematic understandings of Texas historiography embraced by a new generation of Texas historians as they reflect analytically on the work of the past two decades. The resulting approaches thus offer the potential of informing the study of themes and topics other than those specifically introduced in this volume, extending its usefulness well beyond a review of the literature. In addition, the volume editors#x19; introduction proposes the application of cultural constructionism as an important third perspective on the thematic and topical analyses provided by the other contributors. Beyond Texas Through Timeoffers both a vantage point and a benchmark, serving as an important reference for scholars and advanced students of history and historiography, even beyond the borders of Texas.

Walter L. Buenger is the author of The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression (University of Texas Press, 2001), and other books. Professor and chair of the department of history at Texas AM University, his PhD is from Rice University. Arnoldo De Len, the C.J. "Red" Davidson Professor of History at Angelo State University, is the author of Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890 (University of New Mexico Press, 2002), and other books. He received his PhD from Texas Christain University.