Where Texas Meets The Sea
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Where Texas Meets The Sea
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Author : Alan Lessoff
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-02-28
Where Texas Meets The Sea written by Alan Lessoff and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-28 with History categories.
A favorite destination of visitors to the Texas coast, Corpus Christi is a midsize city that manages to be both cosmopolitan and provincial, networked and local. It is an indispensable provider of urban services to South Texas, as well as a port of international significance. Its industries and military bases and, increasingly, its coastal research institutes give it a range of connections throughout North America. Despite these advantages, however, Corpus Christi has never made it into the first rank of Texas cities, and a keen self-consciousness about the city’s subordinate position has driven debates over Corpus’s identity and prospects for decades. In this masterful urban history—a study that will reshape the way that Texans look at all their cities—Alan Lessoff analyzes Corpus Christi’s place within Texas, the American Southwest, the western Gulf of Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands from the city’s founding in 1839 to the present. He portrays Corpus as a place where westward Anglo expansion overwhelmed the Hispanic settlement process from the south, leaving a legacy of conflicting historical narratives that colors the city’s character even now. Lessoff also explores how competing visions of the city’s identity and possibilities have played out in arenas ranging from artwork in public places to schemes to embellish, redevelop, or preserve the downtown waterfront and North Padre Island. With a deep understanding of the geographic, historical, economic, and political factors that have formed the city, Lessoff demonstrates that Corpus Christi exemplifies the tensions between regional and cosmopolitan influences that have shaped cities across the Southwest.
Corpus Christi
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Corpus Christi written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Corpus Christi (Tex.) categories.
Where Texas Meets The Sea
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Author : Bryan Woolley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Where Texas Meets The Sea written by Bryan Woolley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Coasts categories.
Where Texas Meets The Sea
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Author : Alan Lessoff
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2019-02-05
Where Texas Meets The Sea written by Alan Lessoff and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with History categories.
Demonstrating how the growth of a midsized city can illuminate urban development issues across an entire region, this exemplary history of Corpus Christi explores how competing regional and cosmopolitan influences have shaped this thriving port and leisur
Some Monument To Last
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Author : James Michael Doughty
language : en
Publisher: Doughty Enterprises
Release Date : 2009
Some Monument To Last written by James Michael Doughty and has been published by Doughty Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Texas categories.
When television viewers see James Muñoz on the air, they see a man who has achieved his lifelong dream. They don't see the lonely, sexually abused child with a father-sized hole in his heart. James grew up missing the father he never knew and spent much of his early adulthood searching for his paternal family. Today he uses the name Muñoz (his mother's maiden name) on the air to honor his maternal family and Hispanic heritage and the name Doughty (his surname) in private life to honor his father and his paternal family's legacy. He shares his story to inspire and encourage others to achieve their dreams regardless of the challenges they face. His grandmother's poems and his father's letters that helped fill that empty place in his heart will touch the hearts of readers, and his advice to young people will motivate them to build their own monuments to last.
Where The Land Meets The Sea
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Author : Tom D. Dillehay
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
Where The Land Meets The Sea written by Tom D. Dillehay and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Huaca Prieta—one the world's best-known, yet least understood, early maritime mound sites—and other Preceramic sites on the north coast of Peru bear witness to the beginnings of civilization in the Americas. Across more than fourteen millennia of human occupation, the coalescence of maritime, agricultural, and pastoral economies in the north coast settlements set in motion long-term biological and cultural transformations that led to increased social complexity and food production, and later the emergence of preindustrial states and urbanism. These developments make Huaca Prieta a site of global importance in world archaeology. This landmark volume presents the findings of a major archaeological investigation carried out at Huaca Prieta, the nearby mound Paredones, and several Preceramic domestic sites in the lower Chicama Valley between 2006 and 2013 by an interdisciplinary team of more than fifty international specialists. The book's contributors report on and analyze the extensive material records from the sites, including data on the architecture and spatial patterns; floral, faunal, and lithic remains; textiles; basketry; and more. Using this rich data, they build new models of the social, economic, and ontological practices of these early peoples, who appear to have favored cooperation and living in harmony with the environment over the accumulation of power and the development of ruling elites. This discovery adds a crucial new dimension to our understanding of emergent social complexity, cosmology, and religion in the Neolithic period.
The Bay Shrimpers Of Texas
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Author : Robert Lee Maril
language : en
Publisher: Rural America
Release Date : 1995
The Bay Shrimpers Of Texas written by Robert Lee Maril and has been published by Rural America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
"To read this book is to spend a day on a 40-foot shrimp boat in a southern Texas bay, then return home to an isolated port town whose economy revolves around shrimping and whose future is in jeopardy. Often reading like a good novel, Maril's political economy of the Texas shrimp industry is written by someone who knows the inner workings of the industry and the communities that depend upon it. A rich and highly engaging study of the industry". -- Contemporary Sociology.
Texas Coast
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Author : Laurence Parent
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2005-10-01
Texas Coast written by Laurence Parent and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-01 with Photography categories.
This beautiful book combines Laurence Parent's magnificent photographs with Joe Nick Patoski's entertaining text to create a one-of-a-kind portrait of the Texas coast.
Civil Rights In Black And Brown
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Author : Max Krochmal
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Civil Rights In Black And Brown written by Max Krochmal and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with History categories.
Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze of the national media, African American and Mexican American activists combated the twin caste systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow. These insurgents worked chiefly within their own racial groups, yet they also looked to each other for guidance and, at times, came together in solidarity. The movements sought more than integration and access: they demanded power and justice. Civil Rights in Black and Brown draws on more than 500 oral history interviews newly collected across Texas, from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods and everywhere in between. The testimonies speak in detail to the structure of racism in small towns and huge metropolises—both the everyday grind of segregation and the haunting acts of racial violence that upheld Texas’s state-sanctioned systems of white supremacy. Through their memories of resistance and revolution, the activists reveal previously undocumented struggles for equity, as well as the links Black and Chicanx organizers forged in their efforts to achieve self-determination.
Oil Spaces
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Author : Carola Hein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-23
Oil Spaces written by Carola Hein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-23 with Political Science categories.
Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum’s role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.