Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell Series
Vol. 2: Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881
Published: September, 2024 Pages: 272 Features: 3 b&w illus. 8 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.
Often obscured in the history of the nineteenth-century US-Mexico borderlands, European-born entrepreneurs played a definitive role in pushing the Lower Rio Grande borderlands into Atlantic markets. Though they were often stymied by mismanagement, notions of ethnic and cultural superiority, and eruptions of violence, these entrepreneurs persistently attempted to remake the region into a modern commercial utopia. more... about Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881
Vol. 1: The German Texas Frontier in 1853: Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians
Published: March, 2024 Pages: 256 Features: 20 b&w illus. 5 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.
Ferdinand Lindheimer was already renowned as the father of Texas botany when, in late 1852, he became the founding editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung, a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler community on the Central Texas frontier. His first year of publication was a pivotal time for the settlers and the American Indians whose territories they occupied. Based on an analysis of the paper’s first year—and drawing on methods from documentary and narrative history, ethnohistory, and literary analysis—Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham deliver a new chronicle of the frontier in 1853. more... about The German Texas Frontier in 1853: Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians