{"product_id":"lone-star-vistas-astrid-haas-9781477322604","title":"Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery place is a product of the stories we tell about it--stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. \u003ci\u003eLone Star Vistas\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico's independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors--members of the region's three major settler populations--who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, \u003ci\u003eLone Star Vistas\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers' particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Astrid Haas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477322604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477322604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Astrid Haas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989184512255,"sku":"9781477322604","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c707335b-1f15-4459-af55-4e969d301973.jpg?v=1683298055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lone-star-vistas-astrid-haas-9781477322604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}