Lone Star Vistas

Author : Astrid Haas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477322604

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Lone Star Vistas by Astrid Haas Pdf

Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it—stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors—members of the region’s three major settler populations—who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, Lone Star Vistas is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers’ particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission.

Author : Astrid Haas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477322628

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Lone Star Vistas by Astrid Haas Pdf

Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it—stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors—members of the region’s three major settler populations—who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, Lone Star Vistas is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers’ particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission.

Author : Bill Cunningham,Steven L. Davis,Rollo K. Newsom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780292717374

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Lone Star Sleuths by Bill Cunningham,Steven L. Davis,Rollo K. Newsom Pdf

A collection of thirty short crime stories set in Texas by a variety of writers, including Kinky Friedman, Mary Willis Walker, and Carolyn Hart.

Author : William S. Clayson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292782594

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Freedom Is Not Enough by William S. Clayson Pdf

Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that, just as the civil rights movement and federal law tore down legalized segregation, progressive government and grassroots activism could eradicate poverty in the United States. Yet few have attempted to evaluate the relationship between the OEO and the freedom struggles of the 1960s. Focusing on the unique situation presented by Texas, Freedom Is Not Enough examines how the War on Poverty manifested itself in a state marked by racial division and diversity—and by endemic poverty. Though the War on Poverty did not eradicate destitution in the United States, the history of the effort provides a unique window to examine the politics of race and social justice in the 1960s. William S. Clayson traces the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State against a backdrop of dissent among Chicano militants and black nationalists who rejected Johnson's brand of liberalism. The conservative backlash that followed is another result of the dramatic political shifts revealed in the history of the OEO, completing this study of a unique facet in Texas's historical identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : UOM:39015012077676

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Vista volunteer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Economic Opportunity Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130070134

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Vista Volunteer by Economic Opportunity Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556032751240

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Vista Del Sol LNG Terminal Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilfried Raussert,Giselle Liza Anatol,Sebastian Thies,Sarah Corona Berkin,José Carlos Lozano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351064682

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The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas by Wilfried Raussert,Giselle Liza Anatol,Sebastian Thies,Sarah Corona Berkin,José Carlos Lozano Pdf

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas. The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts: Literature and Music deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments. Media and Visual Cultures explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science; and cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, globalization and media studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031805203

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CA SR 125 South, Between Otay Mesa and Spring Valley in San Diego County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cal Jillson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136454240

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Lone Star Tarnished by Cal Jillson Pdf

Texas pride, like everything else in the state, is larger than life. So, too, perhaps, are the state’s challenges. Lone Star Tarnished approaches public policy in the nation’s most populous "red state" from historical, comparative, and critical perspectives. The historical perspective provides the scope for asking how various policy domains have developed in Texas history, regularly reaching back to the state’s founding and with substantial data for the period 1950 to the present. In each chapter, Cal Jillson compares Texas public policy choices and results with those of other states and the United States in general. Finally, the critical perspective allows us to question the balance of benefits and costs attendant to what is often referred to as "the Texas way" or "the Texas model." Jillson delves deeply into seven substantive policy chapters, covering the most important policy areas in which state governments are active. Through his lively and lucid prose, students are well equipped to analyze how Texas has done and is doing compared to selected states and the national average over time and today. Readers will also come away with the necessary tools to assess the many claims of Texas’s exceptionalism.

Author : Vera M. Kutzinski,Anthony Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009076616

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Langston Hughes in Context by Vera M. Kutzinski,Anthony Reed Pdf

Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia, the African continent, and beyond. To study Langston Hughes is to develop a new sense of the twentieth century. He was more than a man of his times; emerging as a key member of the Harlem Renaissance, his poems, plays, journalism, translations, and prose fiction documented and shaped the world around him. The twenty-nine essays in this volume engage with his at times conflicting investments in populist and modernist literature, his investments in freedom in and beyond the US, and the many genres through which he wrote. Langston Hughes in Context considers the places and experiences that shaped him, the social and cultural contexts in which he wrote, thought and travelled, and the international networks that forged and secured his life and reputation.

Author : Howard Seely
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Lone Star Bo-Peep and Other Tales of Texas Ranch Life (Expanded, Annotated) by Howard Seely Pdf

Howard Seely's books about Texas ranch life read as well today as they did when first published in the 19th century. Though not a Texan, Seely spent a lot of time there and captures the language and culture of the place with remarkable fidelity. The New York Times wrote of him: “Mr. Seely is not native to Texas, at least not to a Texas ranch. He is college-bred [Yale] and through his writings runs constant evidence of his Eastern culture. But he has deep sympathy with ranch life, and this sympathy the reader feels to be something more than the sympathy that is natural to a studious observer of manners and customs. Beneath the outer aspects of men as trained to the saddle and armed with ‘shooting irons,’ he sees the human nature that dominates and inspires every incident of daily life.” Seely's fiction was popular in its day and is now available for a new audience in ebook format. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028737455

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Vista by Anonim Pdf

Author : Betty Holland Wiesepape
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1585443247

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Lone Star Chapters by Betty Holland Wiesepape Pdf

As Texas entered the 20th century, it was opening a new chapter in its cultural and social life. This text examines the contributions of literary societies and writers' clubs to the cultural and literary development that took place in Texas between the close of the frontier and the beginning of World War II.

Author : Jason Weems
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439676592

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Texas BBQ Adventure Guide by Jason Weems Pdf

From backroad barns to big city spots with a line around the block, Jason Weems sets Texans up with the recipe for a successful barbecue-centric adventure From the bayous of the east to the dusty deserts of the west, embark on a journey through the countless smokehouses, roadhouses, and BBQ food trucks that line the backroads and main streets of Texas. Dive into a history that dates back to treasure hungry conquistadors and swashbuckling buccaneers. Learn what divides the state into five main flavor regions and read your plate of BBQ like a roadmap through history. Author Jason Weems journeyed over 3500 miles around the highways and byways of Texas to bring you a guide that's dripping with pro-tips and sizzling with backstory.