South Texas Never Raided

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Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482831333
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis South Texas Never Raided by : Jings Chen

Download or read book South Texas Never Raided written by Jings Chen and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Jackson, a young New York newsman, went to California with purpose to investigate a retired hit man’s life story that led him an idea to go to El Paso ,Texas, for details of the hiding border truth; his fate put him into the net connecting drug cartels and law enforcement forces on the both sides of the United States and Mexican border down to Rosario, Argentina, where Sinoloa cartel from Mexico began to establish its new drug paradise with support of new raised local cartel Los Monos; a story tells you how an innocent newsman turned to be a DEA agent but when man makes plan, God used to make steps. This is an imaginary tale that reflects the similar situation had affected the whole American earth for many decades and that just likes an invisible killer hiding inside the whole Pan American soil.... People lost their own liberty while money talks.

Revolution in Texas

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300094251
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (942 download)

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Book Synopsis Revolution in Texas by : Benjamin Heber Johnson

Download or read book Revolution in Texas written by Benjamin Heber Johnson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revolution in Texas, Benjamin Johnson tells the little-known story of one of the most intense and protracted episodes of racial violence in United States history. In 1915, against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the uprising that would become known as the Plan de San Diego began with a series of raids by ethnic Mexicans on ranches and railroads. Local violence quickly erupted into a regional rebellion. In response, vigilante groups and the Texas Rangers staged an even bloodier counterinsurgency, culminating in forcible relocations and mass executions. eventually collapsed. But, as Johnson demonstrates, the rebellion resonated for decades in American history. Convinced of the futility of using force to protect themselves against racial discrimination and economic oppression, many Mexican Americans elected to seek protection as American citizens with equal access to rights and protections under the US Constitution.

Sam Houston Is My Hero

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Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875652771
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (527 download)

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Book Synopsis Sam Houston Is My Hero by : Judy Alter

Download or read book Sam Houston Is My Hero written by Judy Alter and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, determined to avenge her father's death at the Alamo, a twelve-year-old girl sets out across Texas alone gathering support for Sam Houston in the fight against Mexico's General Santa Anna.

South Texas Tales

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Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602475482
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis South Texas Tales by : Patricia Cisneros Young

Download or read book South Texas Tales written by Patricia Cisneros Young and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas

Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292788077
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 by : David Montejano

Download or read book Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 written by David Montejano and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A benchmark publication . . . A meticulously documented work that provides an alternative interpretation and revisionist view of Mexican-Anglo relations.” –IMR (International Migration Review) Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Book Award Texas Institute of Letters Friends of The Dallas Public Library Award Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Best Ethnic, Minority, and Women’s History Publication Here is a different kind of history, an interpretive history that outlines the connections between the past and the present while maintaining a focus on Mexican-Anglo relations. This book reconstructs a history of Mexican-Anglo relations in Texas “since the Alamo,” while asking this history some sociology questions about ethnicity, social change, and society itself. In one sense, it can be described as a southwestern history about nation building, economic development, and ethnic relations. In a more comparative manner, the history points to the familiar experience of conflict and accommodation between distinct societies and peoples throughout the world. Organized to describe the sequence of class orders and the corresponding change in Mexican-Anglo relations, it is divided into four periods, which are referred to as incorporation, reconstruction, segregation, and integration. “The success of this award-winning book is in its honesty, scholarly objectivity, and daring, in the sense that it debunks the old Texas nationalism that sought to create anti-Mexican attitudes both in Texas and the Greater Southwest.” —Colonial Latin American Historical Review “An outstanding contribution to U.S. Southwest studies, Chicano history, and race relations . . . A seminal book.” –Hispanic American Historical Review

Border Bandits, Border Raids

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493028359
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Border Bandits, Border Raids by : W. C. Jameson

Download or read book Border Bandits, Border Raids written by W. C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border Bandits is an account of the many, many stories of back and forth skirmishes between the Mexicans and Texans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There practically wasn't a border, which caused a lot of problems and thievery between the two countries. These seventeen tales in this book re-create border raids that originated from both sides of the fluid and much contested line and tells the stories of colorful characters – Mexican and American – that have since secured their place in history.

From South Texas to the Nation

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625245
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis From South Texas to the Nation by : John Weber

Download or read book From South Texas to the Nation written by John Weber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.

The Texan's Bride

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Publisher : Emily March Books
ISBN 13 : 1942002173
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Texan's Bride written by Emily March and published by Emily March Books. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Injustice Never Leaves You

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989384
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Injustice Never Leaves You by : Monica Muñoz Martinez

Download or read book The Injustice Never Leaves You written by Monica Muñoz Martinez and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award Winner of the María Elena Martínez Prize Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist “A page-turner...Haunting...Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past.” —Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas–Mexico border—including members of the famed Texas Rangers—murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas’s sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. “It’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons...to go mainstream.” —Texas Observer “A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Texas in the Confederacy

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826262805
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis Texas in the Confederacy by : Clayton E. Jewett

Download or read book Texas in the Confederacy written by Clayton E. Jewett and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historians examining the Confederacy have often assumed the existence of a monolithic South unified behind the politics and culture of slavery. In addition, they have argued for the emergence of a strong central state government in the Confederacy. In Texas in the Confederacy, Clayton E. Jewett challenges these assumptions by examining Texas politics with an emphasis on the virtually neglected topic of the Texas legislature. In doing so, Jewett shows that an examination of state legislative activity during this period is essential to understanding Texas's relationship with the Indian tribes, the states in Trans-Mississippi Department, and the Confederate government."--Jacket

Running the Border Gauntlet

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313382131
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Running the Border Gauntlet by : Laurence Armand French Ph.D.

Download or read book Running the Border Gauntlet written by Laurence Armand French Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and cogent history of the Mexico/U.S. border conflict analyzes the acts that led to the current U.S. policy and its effects on immigration. Although immigration and the U.S./Mexico border are perennial election issues, few Americans are aware of the long history of racial, political, religious, and class conflict that have resulted in America's contentious immigration policies. Running the Border Gauntlet traces this complex history, examining events that eventually led to the forceful annexation of the majority of Mexico under the pretense of Manifest Destiny and that contribute to tensions between the two nations today. The story begins with religious discord between Protestants and Catholics and continues through the development of an economy based on slave labor, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican Revolution, the Bracero Program, NAFTA, and the "war on drugs." Among other revelations, the book challenges the long-held myths of the Texas revolution and the heroic role of the Texas Rangers and documents a continuing disregard for the welfare of indigenous populations. Drawing on all that went before, it explains not only the how and why of current U.S. immigration policy, but also its often-devastating effects on migrant workers.

Interwoven

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890961230
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)

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Book Synopsis Interwoven by : Sallie Reynolds Matthews

Download or read book Interwoven written by Sallie Reynolds Matthews and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records one woman's response to pioneer life in Texas at the turn of the century.

Big Wonderful Thing

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Big Wonderful Thing by : Stephen Harrigan

Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

Digging Into South Texas Prehistory

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Digging Into South Texas Prehistory by : Thomas R. Hester

Download or read book Digging Into South Texas Prehistory written by Thomas R. Hester and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas Ranger Tales II

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Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461625505
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Texas Ranger Tales II by : Mike Cox

Download or read book Texas Ranger Tales II written by Mike Cox and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Cox knows as much about the Texas Rangers as anybody on the planet. And in this, his second book on the Rangers, he spins more great tales of these larger-than-life heroes and their sometimes almost unvelievable adventures. These are all new stories, some only told among the Rangers themselves, some told quietly over remote compfires, and others only whispered over elegant dinner tables. Now here they are: more entertaining, informative, and always exciting tales of the grea Texas Rangers.

Turning Adversity to Advantage

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Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761848606
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Turning Adversity to Advantage by : Nancy McGown Minor

Download or read book Turning Adversity to Advantage written by Nancy McGown Minor and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning Adversity to Advantage is the story of the Lipan Apaches, who are now one of the forgotten Indian tribes of Texas and northern Mexico, yet they were once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. They were as much a part of the landscape as mesquite trees or cactus and proved just as deadly to their enemies as the rattlesnakes coiled among the rocks. Modern borderland residents are left with only a few vague rumors of their past presence and even scholars fail to credit the tribe's impact on the history of the region. The historical record is replete with examples of what the Lipans did; now it is time to discover the why. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges. Time and again, the Lipan Apaches were able to overcome obstacles and turn them to the tribe's advantage.

North from Mexico

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis North from Mexico by : Carey McWilliams

Download or read book North from Mexico written by Carey McWilliams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-volume book provides students, educators, and politicians with an update to the classic Carey McWilliams work North From Mexico. It provides up-to-date information on the Chicano experience and the emergent social dynamics in the United States as a result of Mexican immigration. Carey McWilliam's North From Mexico, first published in 1948, is a classic survey of Chicano history. Now fully updated by Alma M. García to cover the period from 1990 to the present, McWilliams's quintessential book explores all aspects of Chicano/a experiences in the United States, including employment, family, immigration policy, language issues, and other cultural, political, and social issues. The volume builds on the landmark work and also provides relevant up-to-date content to the 1990 edition revised by Matt S. Meier, which added coverage of the key period in Chicano history from the postwar period through to the late 1980s. As the largest group of immigrants in the United States, representing more than a quarter of foreign-born individuals in the United States, Mexican immigrants have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the culture and society of the United States as a whole. This freshly updated edition of North from Mexico addresses the changing demographic trends within Mexican immigrant communities and their implications for the country; analyzes key immigration policies such as the Immigration Act of 1990 and California's Proposition 187, with specific emphasis on the political mobilization that has developed within Mexican American immigrant communities; and describes the development of immigration reform as well as community organizations and electoral politics. The book contains new chapters that examine recent trends in Mexican immigration to the United States and identify the impact on politics and society of Mexican immigrants and later generations of U.S.-born Mexican Americans. The appendices provide readers and researchers with current immigration figures and information regarding today's socieconomic conditions for Mexican Americans.