Pioneer Jewish Texans /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
2011.
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Edición: | 1st Texas A&M University Press ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to a people
- The adventurers: conquistadors and the search for freedom
- The soldiers: Jews in the battles for Texas independence
- The colonizers: opening Texas's lands west
- The statesmen: constructing a republic and a nation
- The ranchers: giants of Texas's great cattle herds
- The financiers: new frontiers in banking
- The wildcatters: from pipes to oil leases
- The humanitarian: Galveston and the gateway immigration movement
- The great merchants: some called them princes
- The significant merchants: laying the economic foundation for Texas's future
- The educators: the Paul Reveres of education
- The artists: vanguards in the arts
- The doctors and other healers: from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize
- The lawyers: justice for all.