A Thumb Nail History Of The City Of Houston Texas From Its Founding In 1836 To The Year 1912 Classic Reprint

Author : Samuel Oliver Young
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849649180

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A Thumb-Nail History of the City of Houston, Texas by Samuel Oliver Young Pdf

This beautiful, small historical work is divided into twelve chapters, each devoted to some phase of the city's activities and tracing its history from the inception of that interest to the year 1912. Chapter 1 gives an account of the founding of Houston and outlines its municipal history; Chapter 2 tells of the building activities, private and public, at different periods, and of the organization of fire companies; Chapter 3 does the same for railroad building, and gives some notes on the lawyers and doctors; many more chapters follow. Obviously. the book is far from being a complete history of Houston. There is enough history, however, to indicate the leading role Houston has played in the business enterprise of the State, and the wonderful transformation of the old Houston into a modern city.

Author : Samuel Oliver Young
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0484205714

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A Thumb-Nail History of the City of Houston, Texas, From Its Founding in 1836 to the Year 1912 (Classic Reprint) by Samuel Oliver Young Pdf

Excerpt from A Thumb-Nail History of the City of Houston, Texas, From Its Founding in 1836 to the Year 1912 Now, as a matter of fact, there was no good rea son for the new town. The location at Harrisburg was ideal and had many advantages, naturally, that Houston had to create artificially. There was, to begin with, sixteen miles of very crooked and hard ly navigable bayou to be overcome in order to reach Houston, while the new site had absolutely nothing to compensate for this disadvantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Oliver Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Houston (Tex.)
ISBN : OCLC:934433614

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A Thumb-nail History of the City of Houston, Texas by Samuel Oliver Young Pdf

Author : Samuel Oliver Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Houston (Tex.)
ISBN : OCLC:252070813

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A Thumbnail History of the City of Houston, Texas by Samuel Oliver Young Pdf

Author : Diana Severance,Diana Severence
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780965499996

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Deep Roots, Strong Branches by Diana Severance,Diana Severence Pdf

Author : Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101217788

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A Patriot's History of the United States by Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen Pdf

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 1555953611

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Corcoran Gallery of Art by Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson Pdf

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Author : Leland R. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Canals
ISBN : UOM:39015073593314

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Triumph at the falls by Leland R. Johnson Pdf

Author : Carl Solms-Braunfels
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Germans
ISBN : 1574411241

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Voyage to North America, 1844-45 by Carl Solms-Braunfels Pdf

"Included in the Appendix are two additional important documents. First, is the diary of the colonial director of the Adelsverein, Alexander Bourgeois, who accompanied Solms until dismissed in August 1844. This record provides a unique counterpoint to Solms's viewpoint. The second is the Memoir on American Affairs, addressed to Queen Victoria. In this, written in 1845 some months after Solms's return to Germany, develops political views which were strongly influenced by Solms's stay in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anna M. Lawton,Herbert Eagle
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0974493473

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Words in Revolution by Anna M. Lawton,Herbert Eagle Pdf

In her extensive Introduction, Lawton has highlighted the historical development of the movement and has related futurism both to the Russian national scene and to avant-garde movements worldwide.

Author : Joe Holley
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595343093

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Native Texan by Joe Holley Pdf

Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holley is widely loved for his popular “Native Texan” column, which appears in the Houston Chronicle. In thirty stories curated from column archives, Holley introduces readers to his favorite people and places across the state. From interviews on the “weird” streets of Austin and his search for ghosts in Bigfoot to a decades-long love affair with everything about Marathon and hikes on the back trails of the Big Bend, Holley is a masterful storyteller. His instincts are backed by a seasoned journalist’s passion to measure legends and tall tales against investigations into what really happened. He reveals small-town Texas, and some small towns within the largest cities, with a style that has proven popular with readers and a keen eye for a unique spin on an old story. The result is an entertaining and certainly surprising view of the Lone Star state.

Author : Christine Poggi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300051093

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In Defiance of Painting by Christine Poggi Pdf

The invention of collage by Picasso and Braque in 1912 proved to be a dramatic turning point in the development of Cubism and Futurism and ultimately one of the most significant innovations in twentieth-century art. Collage has traditionally been viewed as a new expression of modernism, one allied with modernism's search for purity of means, anti-illusionism, unity, and autonomy of form. This book - the first comprehensive study of collage and its relation to modernism - challenges this view. Christine Poggi argues that collage did not become a new language of modernism but a new language with which to critique modernism. She focuses on the ways Cubist collage - and the Futurist multimedia work that was inspired by it - undermined prevailing notions of material and stylistic unity, subverted the role of the frame and pictorial ground, and brought the languages of high and low culture into a new relationship of exchange.

Author : Carol Strickland,John Boswell
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0740768727

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The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland,John Boswell Pdf

Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.

Author : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634974

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Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture by Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292759510

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Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan Pdf

The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.