{"product_id":"lone-star-mind-reimagining-texas-history-paperback-softback-9780806194783","title":"Lone Star Mind; Reimagining Texas History (Paperback \/ softback) 9780806194783","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLone Star Mind\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReimagining Texas History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTy Cashion (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806194783\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w illus. and 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.549 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“Ty Cashion has written an optimistic and ultimately cheerful book: He argues that we have arrived at a tipping point, a point where drawing from the best of traditional history and revisionist history and inspired by the recent emphasis on cultural history a new organizing principle can emerge that unites historians and all Texans. Cashion believes that out of this yet-to-be-fully-determined organizing principle a new, more ‘usable’ history will evolve that better fits the culturally diverse present-day Texas. For those interested in the interaction of popular culture and history, and for those searching for a way forward from the divisiveness of our times, this is a must-read.”—Walter L. Buenger, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“…Cashion’s message will be well received by scholars, due both to its optimism as well as its rich accounting for what “Texas” has meant across time. Whether the gap between popular Texas history and academic Texas history can ever be bridged, though—especially given the deep divisions in the state that Cashion accounts for, not to mention the larger political fracturing of the early twenty-first century United States—remains to be seen. Nonetheless, \u003ci\u003eLone Star Mind \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply thoughtful book that all Texas historians should read.\"— \u003cem\u003ePanhandle-Plains Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLone Star Mind \u003c\/i\u003eleads the reader through the processes of how communities construct and deploy narratives of the past, and it confirms that Cashion remains one of the more perceptive scholars of Texas history and culture.”— \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThere is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s historical imagination.\u003ci\u003e Lone Star Mind\u003c\/i\u003e takes aim at this traditional narrative, holding both academic and lay historians accountable for the ways in which they craft the state’s story. A clear-sighted, far-reaching work of intellectual history, this book marshals a wide array of pertinent scholarship, analysis, and original ideas to point the way toward a new “usable past” that twenty-first-century Texans will find relevant.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTy Cashion fixes T. R. Fehrenbach’s \u003ci\u003eLone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans \u003c\/i\u003ein his crosshairs in particular, laying bare the conceptual deficiencies of the romantic and mythic narrative the book has served to codify since its first publication in 1968. At the same time, Cashion explores the reasons why the collective efforts of university-trained scholars have failed to diminish the appeal of the state’s iconic popular culture, despite the fuller and more accurate record these historians have produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFraming the search for a collective Texan identity in the context of a post-Christian age and the end of Anglo-male hegemony, \u003ci\u003eLone Star Mind \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the many historiographical issues besetting the study of American history that will resonate with scholars in other fields as well. Cashion proposes that a cultural history approach focusing on the self-interests of all Texans is capable of telling a more complete story—a story that captures present-day realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551758676248,"sku":"9780806194783","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lone-star-mind-reimagining-texas-history-paperback-softback-9780806194783","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}