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The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780292708884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner, Texas State Historical Association Coral H. Tullis Memorial Award for best book on Texas history, 2001 Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas, from a poverty-stricken region mired in Confederate mythology into a more modern and economically prosperous part of the United States. By contrast, this history of Northeast Texas, one of the most culturally southern areas of the state, offers persuasive evidence that political, economic, and social modernization began long before the 1930s and... Winner, Texas State Historical Association Coral H. Tullis Memorial Award for best book on Texas history, 2001 Federal New Deal progra... |
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Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations
ISBN: 9780890964682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1991, this pioneering work in Texas historiography, edited by Walter H. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert, placed the intellectual development of Texas History within the framework of current trends in the study of U.S. history. In Texas through Time, twelve eminent scholars contribute evaluations of the historical literature in their respective fields of expertise-from Texas-Mexican culture and African-American roles to agrarianism, progressivism, and the New Deal; from perspectives on women to the urban experience of the Sunbelt boom and near-bust. The...
Originally published in 1991, this pioneering work in Texas historiography, edited by Walter H. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert, placed the int...
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147,79 zł |
Preserving German Texan Identity, 45: Reminiscences of William A. Trenckmann, 1859-1935
ISBN: 9781623497132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of William Andreas Trenckmann's memoirs as a revealing window into the lives of German Texans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of William Andreas Trenckmann's memoirs as a reveal...
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217,79 zł |
Secession and the Union in Texas
ISBN: 9780292739956 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1845 Texans voted overwhelmingly to join the Union. They voted just as overwhelmingly to secede in 1861. The story of why and how that happened is filled with colorful characters, such as the aged Sam Houston, and with the southwestern flavor of raiding Comanches, German opponents of slavery, and a border with Mexico. Texas was unique among the seceding states because of its ambivalence toward secession. Yet for all its uniqueness the story of the secession of Texas has broad implications for the secession movement in general. Despite the local color and the southwestern nature of... In 1845 Texans voted overwhelmingly to join the Union. They voted just as overwhelmingly to secede in 1861. The story of why and how that happened ... |
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103,89 zł |
But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886-1986
ISBN: 9780890969809 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly Texas Commerce Bank, one of the city's largest.
From the chartering of Texas Commerce's first predecessor in 1886, the bank's ancestor institutions helped finance the growth of the region's lumber, cotton, and oil industries and played important roles in Houston's civic life. One of them, the National Bank of Commerce, was long controlled... For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of...
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170,86 zł |