Faces of Béxar : Early San Antonio and Texas /
Faces of Bexar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author's career over a quarter of a century. A new bibliographic essay on early San Antonio and Texas history round...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Spanish colonial Texas
- "A fine country with broad plains
- the most beautiful in New Spain" : views of land and nature in colonial San Antonio
- Forgotten founders : the military settlers of eighteenth-century San Antonio de Bexar
- "To the last drop of our blood" : defending king and empire in San Antonio
- The Saltillo Fair and its San Antonio connections
- Why Urbano and Maria Trinidad can't get married : social relations in late colonial San Antonio
- "Buena gana tenia de ir a jugar" : the recreational world of early San Antonio, Texas, 1718-1845
- Discovering the Tejano community in "early" Texas
- Rebellion on the frontier
- The colonization and independence of Texas : a Tejano perspective.