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A collection of sixteen essays from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and other leading scholarly journals covering the Civil War and Texas from many angles, including military, political, social, and cultural aspects.
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The county courthouse has long held a central place on the Texas landscape—literally, as the center of the town in which it is located, and figuratively, as the symbol of governmental authority. As a county’s most important public building, the courthouse makes an architectural statement about a community’s prosperity and aspirations—or the lack of them. Thus, a study of county courthouses tells a compelling story about how society’s relationships with public buildings and government have radically changed over the course of time, as well as how architectural tastes have evolved through the decades. A first of its kind, The Courthouses of Central Texas offers an in-depth, comparative architectural survey of fifty county courthouses, which serve as a representative sample of larger trends at play throughout the rest of the state. Each courthouse is represented by a description, with information about date(s) of construction and architects, along with a historical photograph, a site plan of its orientation and courthouse square, and two- and sometimes three-dimensional drawings of its facade with modifications over time. Side-by-side drawings and plans also facilitate comparisons between courthouses. These consistently scaled and formatted architectural drawings, which Brantley Hightower spent years creating, allow for direct comparisons in ways never before possible. He also explains the courthouses’ formal development by placing them in their historical and social context, which illuminates the power and importance of these structures in the history of Texas, as well as their enduring relevance today.
Courthouses --- Texas --- History.
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Bruce M. Shackelford is a nationally recognized authority on the history of the American West. Currently the Curator of the South Texas Heritage Center and the George West Trail Drivers Gallery at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, he has created exhibits utilizing the Museum's important history collections on subjects from American Indian cultures to the history of horsemanship and the cattle industry in North America. In addition he frequently lectures on related topics and has written numerous articles, authored chapters for the books Black Cowboys of Texas and Texas Women on the Cattl
Ranchers --- West family. --- Texas
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Geological carbon sequestration --- Palo Duro Basin (Tex.) --- Texas. --- Texas
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Frontier and pioneer life --- Jones, Frank, --- Texas Rangers. --- Texas Rangers of Company D --- Texas Ranger Company D --- Company D of the Texas Rangers --- E-books
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Public buildings --- architecture [discipline] --- courthouses --- Texas
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By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
Slavery --- Cotton trade --- History --- Mexico --- Texas
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Heroes --- Veterans --- Combat veterans --- Ex-military personnel --- Ex-service men --- Military veterans --- Returning veterans --- Vets (Veterans) --- War veterans --- Armed Forces --- Retired military personnel --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Texas A & M University. --- Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. --- Texas A & M University --- Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas --- A. & M. College of Texas --- Texas A. and M. College --- TAMU --- Texas. --- Texas A & M University System. --- Texas A and M University --- Texas A&M University --- Universidad de Texas A & M --- Texas A & M University System --- Corps of Cadets of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas --- Alumni and alumnae --- United States --- History, Military --- Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets Association
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"This book is the first history of cities in Texas, covering the earliest days of Spanish-Mexican towns, the Republic era to about 1940, and metropolitan Texas to the present. Not only is this book a first for Texas, but there seem to be no equivalent books for any other states, so the author has developed new concepts like 'the first road frontier' and the 'rupture' caused by the railroads. McComb emphasizes how railroads and related innovations such as the telegraph and the clock facilitated in urban development"--Provided by publisher.
Cities and towns --- Cities and towns --- City and town life --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History. --- Growth --- History. --- History. --- Texas --- Texas --- Texas --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.
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Fund raisers (Persons) --- Educational fund raising --- Walker, Robert L., --- Texas A & M Foundation --- Texas A & M University. --- Texas A & M University --- History. --- Finance. --- Alumni and alumnae
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