Author: Anne A. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Archaeology and History of Alamo Plaza
Author: Anne A. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Historical Survey of the Lands Within the Alamo Plaza - River Linkage Development Project
Author: Anne A. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Alamo Plaza (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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A Historical Overview of Alamo Plaza and Camposanto
Author: Robert Jarratt HardPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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The Alamo
Author: George S. NelsonPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Archaeological Investigations in Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 1988 and 1989
Author: Anne A. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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The Alamo Reader
Author: Todd HansenPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811700603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.
The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
Author: Jacinto QuirartePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292787820
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.
History of the Alamo Plaza from Its Beginning to the Present
Author: Horace Ryal SmithPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Remembering the Alamo
Author: Richard R. FloresPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations. Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan and American culture. In Remembering the Alamo, Richard Flores examines how this transformation helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Flores looks at how heritage society members and political leaders sought to define the Alamo, and how their attempts reflected struggles within Texas society over the place and status of Anglos and Mexicans. Flores also explores how Alamo movies and the transformation of Davy Crockett into a hero-martyr have advanced deeply racialized, ambiguous, and even invented understandings of the past.
Archaeological Observations at Alamo Plaza
Author: Anne A. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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