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Author : John O. King
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The Early History of the Houston Oil Company of Texas, 1901-1908 written by John O. King and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603449787
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Texas Labor History written by Bruce A. Glasrud and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state—both organized and not—that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly corrective to such misplaced suppositions, the studies in Texas Labor History provide a helpful new source for scholars and teachers who wish to fill in some of the missing pieces. Tackling a number of such presumptions—that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star State; that black, brown, and white laborers, both male and female, were unable to achieve even short-term solidarity; that labor unions in Texas were ineffective because of laborers’ inability to confront employers—the editors and contributors to this volume lay the foundation for establishing the importance of labor to a fuller understanding of Texas history. They show, for example, that despite differing working conditions and places in society, many workers managed to unite, sometimes in biracial efforts, to overturn the top-down strategy utilized by Texas employers. Texas Labor History also facilitates an understanding of how the state’s history relates to, reflects, and differs from national patterns and movements. This groundbreaking collection of studies offers notable opportunities for new directions of inquiry and will benefit historians and students for years to come.
Author : C. Vann Woodward
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807158208
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
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Author : David G. McComb
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Total Pages : 326 pages
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Author : Diana Davids Hinton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292760566
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Oil in Texas written by Diana Davids Hinton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted out-of-state workers and companies, funded schools and universities, and generated wealth that raised the overall standard of living--even for blue-collar workers. No other twentieth-century development had a more profound effect upon the state. In this book, Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien chronicle the explosive growth of the Texas oil industry from the first commercial production at Corsicana in the 1890s through the vital role of Texas oil in World War II. Using both archival records and oral histories, they follow the wildcatters and the gushers as the oil industry spread into almost every region of the state. The authors trace the development of many branches of the petroleum industry--pipelines, refining, petrochemicals, and natural gas. They also explore how overproduction and volatile prices led to increasing regulation and gave broad regulatory powers to the Texas Railroad Commission.
Author : Jonathan W. Singer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441600
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Broken Trusts written by Jonathan W. Singer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century editorial cartoons often pictured government and industry hand-in-hand. Yet as early as 1889 Texas had enacted an antitrust law to curb the power of monopolies, and in the first years of the industry that would bring untold riches to the state, the attorney general used that law against oil trusts to a surprising extent. Ironically, for most of the first twenty-five years following the enactment of the Sherman Antitrust Act, federal enforcement efforts were extremely limited, leaving the field to the states. Texas was one of several states that had strong antitrust laws and whose attorneys general prosecuted antitrust violations with vigor. Political ambition was a factor in the decisions to investigate and prosecute cases against a highly visible target, the petroleum industry, but there was also a genuine belief in the goals of antitrust policy and in the efficacy of enforcement of the laws. In Broken Trusts, Jonathan Singer offers the definitive study of the formative period of antitrust enforcement in Texas. His analysis of the state attorney general’s use of antitrust law against the oil industry in this time of transition from agricultural to industrial society provides insights into the litigation process, the gap between the rhetoric of trust-busting and the reality of antitrust enforcement, and also the changing roles of state government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The experience of Texas undermines the view that federal action has always dominated antitrust enforcement efforts and that antitrust litigation against Standard Oil was ineffectual. Rather, the results of the Texas attorney general’s litigations suggest that some states took their role in the dual enforcement scheme seriously and that the measure of success of antitrust enforcement goes beyond the amount of monetary penalties collected and the number of companies permanently ousted from a state. This volume will be valuable to those interested in the effects of the Sherman Antitrust Act, as well as those concerned with the evolution of the Texas attorney general’s office.
Author : James Cozine
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411756
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Saving the Big Thicket written by James Cozine and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Thicket of East Texas, which at one time covered over two million acres, served as a barrier to civilizations throughout most of historic times. This text is a classic account of the region's history and a play-by-play narrative of the prolonged fight for the Big Thicket Preserve.
Author : Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470917369
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Edison to Enron written by Robert L. Bradley, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas." —Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston "... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry." —Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told." —Forrest McDonald, Historian
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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
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Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521428378
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Americans and Their Forests written by Michael Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-26 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.
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Author : Robert A. Calvert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119581435
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The History of Texas written by Robert A. Calvert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic text The History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook looks at how people of diverse politics, identity, class, ethnicity, and race shaped the state’s past and continue to influence its present. Recent knowledge on the political, social, and cultural history of Texas provides insights on the celebrated figures, unsung heroes, and ordinary people of the state’s past. The sixth edition of this classic text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship in all fields of Texas history, among them New Indian History and cultural and gender studies. The text offers fresh perspectives on Texas history, including discussions of the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the Second World War and post-war modernization, and the state’s transition during the 1960s and into the 1980s. Revised chapters provide wide-ranging coverage of Texas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including recent statewide and national elections and political debates. This textbook: Connects events in post-World War II Texas to the larger U.S. historical narrative Offers substantial coverage of events occurring from 1900 to 2018 Uses a chronological approach to divide chapters into easily identifiable eras Includes engaging illustrations, maps, and tables, an appendix, and inclusive lists of recommended readings Features online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more Effectively organized to better meet the needs of instructors, The History of Texas is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Texas history at colleges and universities across both the state and the nation.
Author : Comer Vann Woodward
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Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 written by Comer Vann Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the economis, political, and social evolution of the Outh from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I.
Author : William Russell Johnson
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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Progressives and Prohibitionists written by Lewis L. Gould and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prize-winning account offers a well-written narrative of the Democratic party in Texas during the years when Prohibition dominated the political scene.
Author : John O. King
Publisher : Nashville : Published for the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association by Vanderbilt University Press
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Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Total Pages : 580 pages
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