Author: Julia Nott WaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Castro-ville and Henry Castro, empresario
Author: Julia Nott WaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Castro-Ville And Henry Castro Empresario
Author: Mrs. Julia Nott WaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Cstro-ville and Henry Castro, Empresario
Author: Julia Nott WaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville, Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Castro-ville and Henry Castro, Empresario
Author: Julia Nott WaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Historical information about the town of Castroville, Texas and biographical information about it's founder, Henry Castro. Henry was born in France. He came to America in 1827 as the consul for the Kingdom of Naples assigned to Providence, Rhode Island. Henry became an American citizen and in 1842 he moved to the Republic of Texas. Henry was appointed to serve as counsul-general from the Republic of Texas to France. In this position he negotiated the settlement of a group of French settlers in Texas later referred to as the Castro settlers. They settled west of San Antonio, in the area now known as Castroville.
Castro's Colony
Author: Bobby D. WeaverPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585445189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresario system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder.
Early Colonization of Texas and Henry Castro, Empresario, Castroville, Texas
Author: Audrey G. GoldtharpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Early Colonization of Texas and Henry Castro, Empresario, Castroville, Texas
Author: Audrey Goldtharp BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castroville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Promised Land
Author: Jefferson MorgenthalerPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In 1842, Sam Houston, president of the new Texas Republic, wanted four things: peace with Mexico, peace with the native population, financing from Europe, and productive settlers for his vast, new country. He issued colonization contracts in an effort to meet all these objectives, but only two of President Houston’s contracts actually resulted in permanent settlement. Promised Land provides a close examination of the circumstances surrounding the colonization contract issued to Henri Castro of France and the contract assumed by Germany’s Adelsverein.
Louis Rose, San Diego's First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur
Author: Donald H. HarrisonPublisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780932653680
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Louis Rose, an Old World immigrant, came to San Diego in 1850 and was one of the key figures who helped to shape the region. This comprehensive biography addresses not only the founding of Jewish institutions in San Diego, but how Rose helped to develop secular institutions as well.
The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800
Author: Paolo BernardiniPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571811530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.