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This DeGolyer Library major exhibition attempts to explore the development of the Alamo myth itself and to suggest what that myth may reflect about the American character. This investigation has revealed much that is confusing and contradictory. The Alamo's defense certainly was heroic and has thus served well as a standard for subsequent American warriors, but this battle suggests a darker side to the American character as well. The Texas revolution deepened the split between North and South over the expansion of slavery into the Southwest and West. To many of its contemporaries, such as abolitionist leader Benjamin Lundy, the Texas revolution suggested not a fight for freedom but he aggressive expansion of slavery. The link between the Alamo and slavery may or may not be historically tenuous- and in the popular legend it is nonexistent- but the broader question of racism in the development of the Alamo myth should not be casually dismissed. The exhibit explores this theme, specifically in respect to…
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Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience Tapa blanda - 1985
de Susan P. Schoelwer; Designed by Clifton H. Jones; DeGolyer Library (With)
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- Título Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience
- Autor Susan P. Schoelwer; Designed by Clifton H. Jones; DeGolyer Library (With)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 223
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX
- Fecha de publicación 1985
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780870742132 / 0870742132
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 85016210
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.435
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Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience
de Schoelwer, Susan Pendergast; Paul Andrew Hutton (Intro)
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Alamo images: Changing perceptions of a Texas experience (The DeGolyer Library publications series)
de Susan Prendergast Schoelwer
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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Alamo Images
de Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast
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Dallas, TX: DeGolyer Library, 1985 ISBN 0-87074-213-2 Octavo (8.75 in. by 10.5 in.); 223pp.; fine hardcover; crisp; clean; bright. Two copies of this book are available..
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