{"product_id":"country-of-the-cursed-and-the-driven-slavery-and-the-texas-borderlands-hardback-9781496208354","title":"Country of the Cursed and the Driven; Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (Hardback) 9781496208354","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCountry of the Cursed and the Driven\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSlavery and the Texas Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Barba (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496208354, University of Nebraska Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e474 pages, 7 maps, 2 tables, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Paul Barba’s new book engages [conversations about the history  of slavery and violence in Texas with] deep research, analytical precision, and an impassioned argument. . . . Unflinching.”-Paul Conrad, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Barba's work provides a meaningful contribution to the literatures on Texas history and American slavery.\"-William S. Kiser, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCountry of the Cursed and the Driven \u003c\/i\u003eis a welcome addition to the scholarship on the subject and a must-read for everyone interested in the history of the US borderlands.\"-Jorge E. Delgadillo NÚÑez, H-LatAm\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A thought-provoking book.\"-Alice Baumgartner, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Barba makes a forceful argument that challenges existing scholarship to not excuse kinship slavery as less inhumane than chattel slavery nor to divide them into different histories.\"-Noelle Buffo, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a great work that makes a wonderful contribution to the historiography of sexuality in the American Southwest.\"-Yvette Saavedra, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Deeply researched and covering a vast chronology, \u003ci\u003eCountry of the Cursed and the Driven\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful new interpretation of Texas history through a narrative centered on the enslavement of both Natives and peoples of African descent.”-Karl Jacoby, author of \u003ci\u003eShadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Texas history is too often broken into Spanish, Comanche, Mexican, and Anglo eras. Paul Barba demonstrates that the trauma of slavery sewed all of these ragged pieces together like a suture. A dark, deep, compelling book.”-Brian DeLay, author of \u003ci\u003eWar of a Thousand Deserts\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This is a detailed, unrelenting history of how violence, especially slaving and slaveholding violence, shaped Texas. Paul Barba’s work provides excellent environmental and geopolitical contexts, especially in explaining the dynamics of Native intergroup relations within Texas and on the periphery.”-Alan Gallay, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“By focusing on the overlapping slaving practices of Anglo Americans, Comanches, and Hispanic society from the colonial to national periods, \u003ci\u003eCountry of the Cursed and the Driven\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new lens for viewing the transformation of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. . . . It effectively brings together ethnic history through a borderlands framework while providing a comprehensive history of Texas.”-Todd W. Wahlstrom, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2022 David J. Weber Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas-a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power-local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. \u003ci\u003eCountry of the Cursed and the Driven\u003c\/i\u003e brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas’s slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, \u003ci\u003eCountry of the Cursed and the Driven\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eList of Maps and Tables\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. \"\u003cbr\u003eCursed and Driven, Traded, as Slaves.... O, What a Country\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Slave Raiders and Their Cycles of Violence, 1500s-1760s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. \"\u003cbr\u003eObliged to Purse and Conquer These Indians\"\u003cbr\u003e: Slavery and the Hispanic Path to Colonization in Texas, pre-1717\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"\u003cbr\u003eThis Girl Is What You Want\"\u003cbr\u003e: Slavery and the Quest for Spanish Dominion in Native Country, 1718-1760\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"\u003cbr\u003eReduced to Peace... by the Attacks of the Comanches\"\u003cbr\u003e: Slavery and the Comanche Emergence in the Texas Borderlands, 1706-1767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Strange and Violent Bedfellows, 1760s-1836\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"\u003cbr\u003eCompanions on Campaign\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Spanish-Comanche Battle for Texas, 1760s-1820\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"\u003cbr\u003eHonest People... from Hell Itself:\"\u003cbr\u003e Anglo-American Colonization and the Rise of Chattel Slavery in Texas, 1800-1836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Violent Confluences in the Age of Anglo-Slaving Supremacy, 1836-1860\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"\u003cbr\u003eDe Overseer Shakes a Blacksnake Whip over Me\"\u003cbr\u003e: Consolidating an Anti-Black Colonial Regime, 1836-1860\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"\u003cbr\u003eThey Should Have Been Entirely Destroyed\"\u003cbr\u003e: Comanche Raiding, Slaving, and Trading in the Age of Anglo Colonial Ascendance, 1836-1860\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. \"\u003cbr\u003eA Malady without Cure\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599891656984,"sku":"9781496208354","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/country-of-the-cursed-and-the-driven-slavery-and-the-texas-borderlands-hardback-9781496208354","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}