Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border write by Elliott Young. This book was released on 2004-07-26. Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz. Made up of a broad cross-border alliance of ranchers, merchants, peasants, and disgruntled military men, Garza’s revolution was the largest and longest lasting threat to the Díaz regime up to that point. After two years of sporadic fighting, the combined efforts of the U.S. and Mexican armies, Texas Rangers, and local police finally succeeded in crushing the rebellion. Garza went into exile and was killed in Panama in 1895. Elliott Young provides the first full-length analysis of the revolt and its significance, arguing that Garza’s rebellion is an important and telling chapter in the formation of the border between Mexico and the United States and in the histories of both countries. Throughout the nineteenth century, the borderlands were a relatively coherent region. Young analyzes archival materials, newspapers, travel accounts, and autobiographies from both countries to show that Garza’s revolution was more than just an effort to overthrow Díaz. It was part of the long struggle of borderlands people to maintain their autonomy in the face of two powerful and encroaching nation-states and of Mexicans in particular to protect themselves from being economically and socially displaced by Anglo Americans. By critically examining the different perspectives of military officers, journalists, diplomats, and the Garzistas themselves, Young exposes how nationalism and its preeminent symbol, the border, were manufactured and resisted along the Rio Grande.
Twilight on the Texas-Mexico Border
Twilight on the Texas-Mexico Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twilight on the Texas-Mexico Border write by Elliott Gordon Young. This book was released on 1997. Twilight on the Texas-Mexico Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Big Wonderful Thing
Big Wonderful Thing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Wonderful Thing write by Stephen Harrigan. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Big Wonderful Thing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
A Wild and Vivid Land
A Wild and Vivid Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Wild and Vivid Land write by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 1997. A Wild and Vivid Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With more than 160 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells stories from the Coahuiltecan Indians and Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the cattlemen and wildcatters who conquered the brush country. Six centuries of exciting and entertaining history thoroughly reasearched.
Airborne Dreams
Airborne Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Airborne Dreams write by Christine R. Yano. This book was released on 2011-01-25. Airborne Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of Pan Ams Nisei stewardess program (1955&–1972), through which the airline hired Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses, ostensibly for their Asian-language skills.
