Description: A broader, transnational approach to Texas' secession from Mexico in the 1835-36 conflict. The result of the 48th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, held at the University of Texas at Arlington in March, 2013, these essays explore the origins and consequences of the events that gave birth to the Texas Republic in ways that extend beyond the borders of the Lone Star State.
Review Quotes: "Those who attended the Walter Prescott Webb Lectures at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2013 were treated to a genuine intellectual feast, and those who read the revised and polished versions of those lectures in Contested Empire will reap an even richer reward. Through their varied transnational perspectives, these innovative scholars from three nations (or four, if one counts Texas) bring new meaning, resonance, and indeed brilliance to the historiography of the Texas Revolution."--James E. Crisp-- (05/19/2015)