Description

Book Synopsis

2022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters

An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.

In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others.

In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Cou

Violence in the Hill Country

    Product form

    £25.19

    Includes FREE delivery

    RRP £27.99 – you save £2.80 (10%)

    Order before 4pm today for delivery by Thu 25 Jun 2026.

    A Paperback by Nicholas Keefauver Roland

      Trusted by thousands of customers. See 2,385+ Customer Reviews

      View other formats and editions of Violence in the Hill Country by Nicholas Keefauver Roland

      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 1/19/2024 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781477330746, 978-1477330746
      ISBN10: 1477330747

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      2022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters

      An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.

      In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others.

      In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Cou

      Recently viewed products

      © 2026 Book Curl

        • American Express
        • Apple Pay
        • Diners Club
        • Discover
        • Google Pay
        • Maestro
        • Mastercard
        • PayPal
        • Shop Pay
        • Union Pay
        • Visa

        Login

        Forgot your password?

        Don't have an account yet?
        Create account