Imperial Texas : an interpretive essay in cultural geography / by D. W. Meinig ; introduction by Lorrin Kennamer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meinig, D. W. (Donald William), 1924-2020, author.

Contributor:

Kennamer, Lorrin Garfield, 1924- writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Texas.

Human geography.

Texas--Description and travel.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1969]

Summary:

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." After examining the historical framework, he then presents detailed analyses of the major regions of modem Texas and an over-all characterization of the state and its people. He concludes that, although Texas has never been the empire that it has sometimes been called, "nevertheless. Texas is something more than just one-fourteenth of the American area, one-twentieth of the American people, and one-fiftieth of the American union."

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LIST OF MAPS

INTRODUCTION

I. Implantation

II. Assertion

III. Expansion

IV. Elaboration

V. Differentiation

VI. Characterization

Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-76713-7

OCLC:

1294423219