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Mythic Texas

Author : Bryan Wooley
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461709164
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Mythic Texas written by Bryan Wooley and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Texans and non-Texans alike, Mythic Texas is a fascinating journey into a culture that is like no other in the world. When you think of the word "Texas," vivid images come to mind. The symbols and legends that most of us associate with Texas all have their basis in the history, culture, and geography of the state. Through the eyes of the people of Texas, this book takes a look at some of these symbols—oil wells, the "leather throne" (the saddle), longhorn cattle, and the famous Lone Star of the Texas Rangers—and comments on their relationship to Texas today.

The Human Tradition in Texas

Author : Ty Cashion
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842029063
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Human Tradition in Texas written by Ty Cashion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and unique history of the 'Lone Star State' is presented in this new book through the lives of a variety of Texans who put a human face on the state's history. Biographical sketches of fifteen famous and little-known men and women of different colors, religions, and economic backgrounds offer new insight into the history of the state. Starting in the sixteenth century with Alvar N?Òez Cabeza de Vaca, the first European to make contact with Texas Indian tribes, and tracing Texas history to the late twentieth century with a final sketch of Gary Gaines, a high-school football coach, The Human Tradition in Texas brings the state's history to life by showing real people and the events and times in which they lived. Written by leading and rising scholars of Texas history, this book presents the major themes and periods in Texas history, including the settling of Anglo-Americans in the region, bringing an American democ-racy that supported slavery; the Civil War and Reconstruction; technologi-cal developments in the late nineteenth century, including railroads and irrigation for crops and livestock; Texas's transformation in the early twentieth century from a world of cotton and cattle to a world of paved streets, electricity and running water; the challenges to modernization faced by the state with the development of the oil industry, the growth in industrialization, and the increasing size of Texas's cities; the new age, with Texas taking leadership roles in the oil, aviation, and entertainment industries; and the expanding inclusiveness of Texas society, nowhere more complete than on the sports field-particularly the football field. A collection of accessible and entertaining essays on this vast, vibrant state, The Human Tradition in Texas is an excellent resource for courses in Texas history and the history of the American West.

Beyond Texas Through Time

Author : Walter L. Buenger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603442359
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Texas Through Time written by Walter L. Buenger and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991 Walter L. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert compiled a pioneering work in Texas historiography: Texas Through Time, a seminal survey and critique of the field of Texas history from its inception through the end of the 1980s. Now, Buenger and Arnoldo De León have assembled an important new collection that assesses the current state of Texas historiography, building on the many changes in understanding and interpretation that have developed in the nearly twenty years since the publication of the original volume. This new work, Beyond Texas Through Time, departs from the earlier volume’s emphasis on the dichotomy between traditionalism and revisionism as they applied to various eras. Instead, the studies in this book consider the topical and thematic understandings of Texas historiography embraced by a new generation of Texas historians as they reflect analytically on the work of the past two decades. The resulting approaches thus offer the potential of informing the study of themes and topics other than those specifically introduced in this volume, extending its usefulness well beyond a review of the literature. In addition, the volume editors’ introduction proposes the application of cultural constructionism as an important third perspective on the thematic and topical analyses provided by the other contributors. Beyond Texas Through Time offers both a vantage point and a benchmark, serving as an important reference for scholars and advanced students of history and historiography, even beyond the borders of Texas.

Mythic Galveston

Author : Susan Wiley Hardwick
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868870
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Mythic Galveston written by Susan Wiley Hardwick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast, Susan Wiley Hardwick examines Galveston's rapid rise and the myth created by immigrants and boosters of an abundant island with a highly temperate, even tropical, climate, ideal for settlement. Hardwick's historical analysis focuses on immigrant settlement patterns and the important contributions to Galveston's evolving sense of place made by diverse ethnic and racial groups."--BOOK JACKET.

Lone Star Tarnished

Author : Cal Jillson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317666933
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Lone Star Tarnished written by Cal Jillson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas pride, like everything else in the state, is larger than life. So, too, perhaps, are the state’s challenges. Lone Star Tarnished, 2nd edition approaches public policy in the nation’s most populous "red state" from historical, comparative, and critical perspectives. The historical perspective provides the scope for asking how various policy domains have developed in Texas history, regularly reaching back to the state’s founding and with substantial data for the period 1950 to the present. In each chapter, Cal Jillson compares Texas public policy choices and results with those of other states and the United States in general. Finally, the critical perspective allows us to question the balance of benefits and costs attendant to what is often referred to as "the Texas way" or "the Texas model." Jillson delves deeply into seven substantive policy chapters, covering the most important policy areas in which state governments are active. The second edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables. Through Jillson's lively and lucid prose, students are well equipped to analyze how Texas has done and is doing compared to selected states and the national average over time and today. Readers will also come away with the necessary tools to assess the many claims of Texas’s exceptionalism.

Lone Star Sleuths

Author : Bill Cunningham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292717377
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Lone Star Sleuths written by Bill Cunningham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty short crime stories set in Texas by a variety of writers, including Kinky Friedman, Mary Willis Walker, and Carolyn Hart.

Texas Boys in Gray

Author : Mamie Yeary
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1556227779
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Texas Boys in Gray written by Mamie Yeary and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there. Sometimes humorous and sometimes heart breaking, the experiences of the Texas War Veterans.

Texas Myths

Author : Robert F. O'Connor
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Texas Myths written by Robert F. O'Connor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of fourteen essays reflecting on aspects of Texas myths including wealth and power, the nature of the family, the "good life," the role of women, and the freedom heritage of African-Americans.

Olympus, Texas

Author : Stacey Swann
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984897403
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Olympus, Texas written by Stacey Swann and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut" (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga, rich in drama and psychological complexity. After all, at some point, don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?

A New Star in the Texas Sky

Author : Alice Lockmiller
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329052501
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A New Star in the Texas Sky written by Alice Lockmiller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Patterson is a 15 year old Saddle-making apprentice in Austin Texas, in 1886. The Capitol Building is being built nearby by stone cutters from Scotland. Someone is stealing the rancher's cattle. Can Andy help his family and neighbors?

The Alcalde

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alcalde written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

The Mythical West

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075885
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Mythical West written by Richard W. Slatta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture. Ever since the days of the 49ers and George Armstrong Custer, the Old West has been America's most potent source of legend. But it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. Did you know, for example, that Annie Oakley was a talented marksman who shot an estimated 40,000 rounds per year while practicing and performing for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late l800s? Or that many interpreters believe that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not just a fairy tale, but also a Populist allegory? These are just two of the folk legends dissected and examined in this veritable cultural geography. The volume covers everything from billionaire Howard Hughes and composer Aaron Copeland to Aztlan (the legendary first city of the Aztecs) and Area 51, the top-secret U.S. Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, that has fascinated UFO and conspiracy buffs.

Humanities

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Bush

Author : United States. President (1989-1993 : Bush)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Bush written by United States. President (1989-1993 : Bush) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Celtic Mythology

Author : Q. L. Pearce
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420511076
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Celtic Mythology written by Q. L. Pearce and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce your readers to the mythology of the ancient Celts. This book describes how the Celtic myths came into being with particular focus on the myth of King Arthur. The book includes a family tree, a chart of gods and characters with brief descriptions and pronunciations, and a list of sources for further research.

Progressive Country

Author : Jason Mellard
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292753004
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Progressive Country written by Jason Mellard and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America

Author : Cathy Rex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000463397
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America written by Cathy Rex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race. It includes contributions from a diverse group of humanities scholars, including early Americanists, and scholars from communication, English, museum studies, historic preservation, art and architecture, Native American studies, and history. Through eight chapters, the collection offers varied perspectives and original analyses of memory-making and re-making through travel to early American sites, bringing needed attention to the considerable role that tourism plays in producing—and possibly unsettling—racialized memories about America’s past. The book is an interdisciplinary effort that analyses lesser-known sites of historical and racial significance throughout North America and the Caribbean (up to about 1830) to unpack the relationship between leisure travel, processes of collective remembering or forgetting, and the connections of tourist sites to colonialism, slavery, genocide, and oppression. Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America provides a deconstruction of the touristic experience with racism, slavery, and the Indigenous experience in America that will appeal to students and academics in the social sciences and humanities.