Author: Walter Prescott WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
The Handbook of Texas
Author: Walter Prescott WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Texas Almanac 2014–2015
Author: Elizabeth Cruce AlvarezPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1625110065
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1603
Book Description
FEATURES OF THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2014–2015 • Sketches of eight historic ranches of Texas by Texana writer Mike Cox. • Article on the Texas art and artists by Houston businessman and art collector J.P. Bryan, who has amassed the world’s largest Texana collection. • Coverage of the 2012 elections, redistricting, and the 2012 Texas Olympic medalists. • An update on Major League Baseball in Texas. • Lists of sports champions — high school, college, and professional. MAJOR SECTIONS UPDATED FOR EACH EDITION • The Environment, including geology, plant life, wildlife, rivers, and lakes. • Weather highlights of the previous two years, plus a list of destructive weather dating from 1766. • Two-year Astronomical Calendar that shows moon phases, times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, eclipses, and meteor showers. • Recreation, with details on state and national parks and forests, landmarks, and fairs and festivals. • Sports, including lists of high school football and basketball champions, professional sports teams, Texas Olympians, and Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductees. • Counties section, with detailed county maps and profiles for Texas’s 254 counties. • Population figures from the 2010 US Census and State Data Center estimates as of 2012. • Comprehensive list of Texas Cities and Towns. • Politics, Elections, and information on Federal, State, and Local Governments. • Culture and the Arts, including a list of civic and religious Holidays. • Religion census of 2010 by denomination and adherents; breakdown on metro areas and counties. • Health and Science, with charts of vital statistics. • Education, including a complete list of colleges and universities, and UIL results. • Business and Transportation, with an expanded section on Oil and Gas. • Agriculture, including data on production of crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and dairy. • Obituaries of notable Texans. • Pronunciation Guide to Texas town and county names.
Making the White Man's West
Author: Jason E. PiercePublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607323966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.
Pioneer Citizens' History of Atlanta, 1833-1902
Author: Pioneer citizens' society. AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Notes on Sedimentation Activities
Author: Biology and Conservation of Florida Turtles
Author: Peter A. MeylanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965354042
Category : Turtles
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The Gift Nobody Wants
Author: Paul BrandPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060925529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Inspirational cassette on the dramatic career of Paul Brand, a famous surgeon
River Stability
Author: David L. RosgenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979130816
Category : Geomorphology
Languages : en
Pages :
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Georgia
Author: Allen Daniel CandlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781403506887
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Watershed Assessment of River Stability and Sediment Supply (WARSSS)
Author: David L. RosgenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979130830
Category : River sediments
Languages : en
Pages :
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