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Author : Charles Houston Harris,Louis R. Sadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fort Bliss (Tex.)
ISBN : UCR:31210014024630
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816539956
Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
Author : Sandra Jansen,Lucia Siebers
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262103
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present day. The volume presents a collection of in-depth studies on a broad spectrum of phonetic, lexical, grammatical and discourse variation, drawing on historical corpora, dictionaries, metalinguistic commentary, ego-documents, spoken language and survey data. Apart from advancing our knowledge of processes of language change in varieties of English, including British English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, American English and Canadian English, the individual chapters contribute to the theoretical debates on variation and change in Late Modern as well as Present-day English.
Author : Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806149530
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented deployment and its significance in the history of the National Guard, World War I, and U.S.-Mexico relations. Often confused with the regular-army operation against Pancho Villa and overshadowed by the U.S. entry into World War I, the great call-up is finally given due treatment here by two premier authorities on the history of the Southwest border. Marshaling evidence drawn from newspapers, state archives, reports to Congress, and War Department documents, Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler trace the call-up’s state-based deployment from San Antonio and Corpus Christi, along the Texas and Arizona borders, to California. Along the way, they tell the story of this mass mobilization by examining each unit as it was called up by state, considering its composition, missions, and internal politics. Through this period of intensive training, the Guard became a truly cohesive national, then international, force. Some units would even go directly from U.S. border service to the battlefields of World War I France, remaining overseas until 1919. Balancing sweeping change over time with a keen eye for detail, The Great Call-Up unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history.
Author : S. C. Sardeshpande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Pugal (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015034230253
About An Historical Principality Of Pugal On The Borders Of Rajasthan Desert Famous Because Of Rani Padmini. Studies The Land In Detail, History, Society, Customs, Traditions Etc.-Its Administrative System-Draws On National From The Accounts Of Hards, State Historians Of Bikaner, Jaisalmer And Jodhpur. 5 Chapters-Appendices, Bibliography, Index-Map.
Author : Charles Houston Harris,Louis R. Sadler
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : El Paso (Tex.)
ISBN : 9780826346520
The untold story of El Paso and its role as the scene of clandestine operations during the Mexican Revolution is revealed here for the first time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0160869498
The book is an authoritative history on the Army Air Defense Artillery Branch on Fort Bliss, Texas. Fort Bliss in 1940 was a cavalry post located on the Texas border. The post itself occupied the sixth location of what had been called Fort Bliss. In the summer of 1940 a number of Army National Guard antiaircraft regiments were called to active duty to spend one year protecting American cities and territories from air attack. In September the first antiaircraft regiment, the 202nd Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment, arrived at Fort Bliss. Over the next four years the post became an antiaircraft training center and finally the Army antiaircraft training center. After the war, Fort Bliss became the premier guided missile testing and training center for the Army. All of the Nike missile battalions deployed to protect American cities during the Cold War trained there. As time passed, Fort Bliss expanded to 1.1 million acres, one of the largest Army posts in the world. By 1946, the antiaircraft arm was the owner of Fort Bliss. By 1957, the post had become the Air Defense Center and School for the United States Army. This book is the story of that progression until the Base Realignment and Closure announcement in 2005. By 2011, the Air Defense Artillery Center and School will be located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. This will end the era of Air Defense Artillery ownership of Fort Bliss, Texas
Author : Anna Grichting,Michele Zebich-Knos
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783086702
The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts.
Author : Loyd Uglow
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418767
In its essence, Texas history is military history. Comprehensive in scope, A Military History of Texas provides the first single-volume military history of Texas from pre-Columbian clashes between Native American tribes to the establishment of the United States Space Force as the newest branch of the nation’s military in the twenty-first century. Rather than creating new theories of what happened, author Loyd Uglow synthesizes competing views of Texas’s military past into a narrative that deals evenhandedly with different interpretations, and recognizes that there is a measure of truth in each one, even while emphasizing those that seem most plausible. Uglow ties the various engrossing aspects of Texas military history into one unified experience. Chapters cover topics of warfare in Texas before the Europeans; Spanish military activities; revolutions against Spain and then Mexico; Texas and Texans in the Mexican War; ante- and post-bellum warfare on the Texas frontier; the Civil War in Texas; the Texas Rangers; border warfare during the Mexican revolution of 1910-1920; Texas and the world wars; and the modern military in Texas. Brief explanations of military terminology and practice, as well as parallels between Texas military actions and ones in other times and places, connect the narrative to the broader context of world military history. Thoroughly documented, with an engaging narrative and perceptive analysis, A Military History of Texas is designed to be accessible and interesting to a broad range of readers. It will find a welcome place in the collections of amateur or professional military historians, devoted fans of all things Texan, and newcomers to military history.
Author : George Bryan Souza,Jeffrey Scott Turley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301542
In The Boxer Codex, two scholars have transcribed, translated and annotated a unique and illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript that deals with the early-modern geography, history and ethnography of the western Pacific and maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673594
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth century's bloodiest struggles. Flames Across the Border is a compelling evocation of war at its most primeval level — the muddy fields, the frozen forests and the ominous waters where men fought and died. Pierre Berton skilfully captures the courage, determination and terror of the universal soldier, giving new dimension and fresh perspective to this early conflict between the two emerging nations of North America.
Author : John Bailey,Jorge Chabat
Publisher : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111796194
Issues of public security - crime, violence, corruption, and defective law enforcement - all play important roles in the Mexico-U.S. bilateral relationship. The contributors to this volume shed new light on the determinants of transnational crime and its consequences for domestic politics in Mexico as well as for U.S.-Mexico relations.
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108046251
Published in two volumes in 1814-17, this work illuminates Border history through description and illustration of architecture and artefacts.
Author : John Parker Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000302093
Author : Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317010067
Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a ‘Third Ecology’ emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, ‘star’ buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated, intractable, irreversible destruction reducing the uniqueness and diversity of cultural, social and ecological peaks and valleys of our world, to a ‘desert flatland’, environmental inequality and unhappiness. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a selection of shorter key texts by Tzonis and Lefaivre, the product of a rare research and writing partnership. The texts, published between the early 1960s and the present, are significant as documents that inform about the period. They are also important and timely because of their critical and influential role in the debates of this era, both creative and destructive.
