Texas: Mapping the Lone Star State through History

Texas: Mapping the Lone Star State through History
Title Texas: Mapping the Lone Star State through History PDF eBook
Author Don Blevins
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 129
Release 2010-01-06
Genre History
ISBN 0762762349

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Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of Texas from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on Lone Star State history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of state history for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Texas Through Time

Texas Through Time
Title Texas Through Time PDF eBook
Author Thomas E. Ewing
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016-09-01
Genre
ISBN 9781970007091

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God Save Texas

God Save Texas
Title God Save Texas PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Wright
Publisher Vintage
Pages 307
Release 2018-04-17
Genre History
ISBN 0525520112

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.

Lone Star

Lone Star
Title Lone Star PDF eBook
Author T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 949
Release 2014-04-01
Genre History
ISBN 1497609704

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The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.

Gone to Texas

Gone to Texas
Title Gone to Texas PDF eBook
Author Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 479
Release 2017-03-15
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9780190642396

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Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, the book offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and always in a struggle with the land, created a history and an idea of Texas. An Instructor's Resource Manual and a set of approximately 400 PowerPoint slides to accompany Gone to Texas, Third Edition, are now available to adopters. Please contact your local Oxford University Press representative for details.

The Shape of Texas

The Shape of Texas
Title The Shape of Texas PDF eBook
Author Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 148
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9780890966648

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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.

Going to Texas

Going to Texas
Title Going to Texas PDF eBook
Author Texas Christian University. Center for Texas Studies
Publisher Texas Christian University Press
Pages 140
Release 2007
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN

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This handsomely illustrated book traces the history of the Lone Star State through color plates of sixty-four historic Texas maps from the Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection, Alpine, and includes ten original essays written by noted historians.