The city in Texas : a history /
"This book is the first history of cities in Texas, covering the earliest days of Spanish-Mexican towns, the Republic era to about 1940, and metropolitan Texas to the present. Not only is this book a first for Texas, but there seem to be no equivalent books for any other states, so the author h...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2015.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Bridwell Texas history series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Theories, definitions, historians
- Part One. First things
- The lay of the land
- The influence of the Native Americans
- The towns of the Spanish Empire in Texas
- The coming of the Americans
- The towns of the Texas Revolution
- Part Two. The dirt road frontier, 1836/1900
- Major events
- The dirt road
- Migration : gone to Texas
- The evolution of San Antonio
- The German towns of Texas
- The coastal ports
- The river ports
- The political towns
- The military towns
- The railroad towns
- The lumber towns
- The end of the dirt road frontier
- Part Three. The amenities of city life, 1900/1950
- The rural to urban shift
- The Great Galveston Storm
- Spindletop and Beaumont
- The oil towns
- The elite rule of the cities
- The World War I era
- The entrancement of the city
- The Great Depression
- World War II
- The immediate postwar years
- Part Four. Great Texas cities, 1950/2012
- Population and urban expansion
- Suburbs and subdivisions
- Segregation and integration
- The Hispanic identity
- John F. Kennedy and Dallas
- The Voting Rights Act and the cities
- Land transportation
- Airlines and airports
- Urban excellence in Texas
- Houston, a Renaissance city
- The infrastructure for excellence
- The city and the state : a conundrum.