321 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. Political events have been discussed only to the extent that they had a b earring on the actions of the soldiers in the field. Professor Paul Lack's recent study, The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836, preludes the need for another political history of the revolt for the foreseeable future. View More...
In the beginning was the name and that is where this book begins. Thence, we proceed chronologically from the late 13th century with the earliest identified recording of the surname Ganne(e) until just after the onset of the 19th century. By that time, there were too many Ganns and they were too widely dispersed to be addressed in a single volume. As you would expect, we start with Western European records then cross the Atlantic to the New World to see what Ganns were up to in the American colonies. At the end of the Revolutionary War, the southern Gann family split apart and within a few gen... View More...