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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Texas Almanac, 2000-2001 (Millennium Edition)
Author: Geography of Texas
Author: José Luis QuezadaPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 150818660X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country's most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas's geography contributed to settling the state. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images.
Geography of Texas
Author: Erik ProutPublisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780757548659
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Shape of Texas
Author: Richard V. FrancavigliaPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.
Texas
Author: Terry G. Jordan-BychkovPublisher: Westview Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Imperial Texas
Author: D.W. MeinigPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029278628X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A “unique and fascinating” look at the various peoples of the Lone Star state from colonial times to the 1960s, illustrated with eighteen maps(American West). Imperial Texas examines the development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state. In this study in cultural geography set into a historical framework, D. W. Meinig, professor of geography at Syracuse University, discusses the various peoples of Texas—who they are, where they came from, where they settled, and how they are proportioned one to another from place to place. In addition, numerous illustrations and maps are included, providing impressions of the populations and migrations that helped shape Texas’s history and culture. “Geography has produced a few scholars who roam more freely in the world of ideas to produce studies of penetration and insight. Meinig is one of these men, and Imperial Texas is such a study.” —Annals of the Association of American Geographers
The Geography of Texas
Author: Frederic William SimondsPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Geography of Texas
Author: Frederic William SimondsPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Geography of Texas
Author: José Luis QuezadaPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508186685
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country's most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas's geography contributed to settling the state. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images.
The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names
Author: Z. T. FulmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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