Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution. Edited by Sam W. Haynes and Gerald D. Saxon

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Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution . Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures Series. Edited by Sam W. Haynes and Gerald D. Saxon. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015. x + 174 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $30.00.) This brief volume consists of five essays written by established historians who now examine distinct aspects of Texas’s separation from Mexico. Since the work is not thematic, each contribution ought to be considered separately. Two of the essays examine Texas in a Mexican context. Miguel Soto poses a two-stage argument: that the massive land grants of the 1824–1835 period diminished Mexico’s control of the territory well before the 1836 revolt erupted and that the Mexican government and many of that … Irving.levinson{at}utrgv.edu