<p>Employing an historical and comparative approach, this text is founded on the work of the classic nineteenth- and early twentieth-century founders of sociology, who began their quest for objective social knowledge by addressing the large questions -- where did their societies come from, what were their characters, and where were they going. In their search for answers, they explored the origins of Western capitalism, analyzed its major economic, political and social institutions, and tried to predict future developments. The Author maintains those classic concerns by providing conceptual tools that help students to make sense of the changes currently sweeping American, European, and Third World societies.</p>

Societies and Social Life: An Introduction to Sociology

James W. Russell

Sloan Publishing

Societies and Social Life: An Introduction to Sociology, Second Edition

Sloan Pub.

<p>In 1828 James, a slave, arrives in Texas, brought by his owner, Samuel Bingham. Texas is then a part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. James comes to Texas because he has no choice. But once there, he finds a postrevolutionary country where slavery is on the way out and his freedom is a real possibility. His owner, though, is determined to take advantage of the low cost of land in Texas to build up a farm into a cotton plantation with the use of slave labor. Over the next nine years James will experience and participate in a series of wrenching events that marked the origins of the Lone Star State. Set in the years surrounding the 1836 Texas War of Independence, ESCAPE FROM TEXAS is a solidly researched examination of the clashing aspirations of slaves, slave owners, Indians, and Mexicans during a turning point of the westward expansion of the United States. While there are a number of novels set in this period of Texas history, ESCAPE FROM TEXAS is the only novel that has a slave as a key protagonist and incorporates prominently that point of view of the turbulent events. Its provocative underlying thesis is that the extension of slavery was the true underlying cause of the Texas War of Independence, not yearnings for freedom by the Texas frontiersmen, as American folklore has traditionally had it. ESCAPE FROM TEXAS is to the understanding of the Texas War of Independence as Howard Fast's Freedom Road was to the understanding of the post-Civil War period of Reconstruction.</p>

Escape from Texas: A Novel of Slavery and the Texas War of Independence

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Sloan Educational Publishing

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