Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (The Lamar Series in Western History)

A gripping narrative about a dramatic episode in the history of the American West--the Plan de San Diego uprising in 1915--and a major contribution to our understanding of the origins of Mexican American identity. "A clear, absorbing analysis of a bloody but little-known revolt along a border that's been troubled ever since it was a border. By looking both backward and forward from the Plan de San Diego, the book does much to explain why Mexican-American identity is the complex fate we know it to be today."--Larry McMurtry "[A] compelling narrative."--William J. Scheick, Dallas Morning News "Deep, detailed, and authentic."--Mark Henricks, San Francisco Chronicle "Sveltana Alpers' [book]...The Making of Rubens...illustrates...the riches that can be revealed through intelligent interpretation...[and] her Rubens emerges as a far more interesting man than the patrician painter of legend."--Sunday Telegraph "In this intense study of two of Rubens's bacchic paintings. . .[Alpers] examines Rubens's reputation in terms of present-day art history, considering the social, political, and gender implications and the development of national tastes. Alpers successfully discusses how the works, by turns vulgar and opulent, are imbued with a sense of abandon, quite at variance with the image of Rubens as the organized, practical creator and purveyor of art."--Paula Frosch, Library Journal "Svetlana Alpers' work has undeniably altered our understanding of seventeenth-century Netherlandish art."--Joanna Woodall, Art History "It is the play of Alpers' agile mind and lively prose that offers a model of art-historical scholarship as a form of pleasure as well."--Lisa Rosenthal, The Oxford Art JournalBenjamin Heber Johnson is the author of 'Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (The Lamar Series in Western History)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780300109702 and ISBN 0300109709.