Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836, Paperback - Andres Tijerina

DescriptionHistorians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands af...

Reducere. A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle...

Traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by ...

This is about my journey to the United States for the hopes of a better life. It puts you in the same shoes as the immigrant crossing the border wi...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. This handy paperback in the Savas "Facts About" series covers all aspects of the famous campaign in surprising detail, with much hard-to-find infor...

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Reducere. Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding, an...

Reducere. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians who contested control over a vast lan...

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

This third edition of our ground-breaking publication, the first survey of Tejanos, has been completely updated to present a concise political, cul...

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a le...

Reducere. Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independe...

Reducere. Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis, Summerfield G. Roberts, and Friends of the Dallas Public Library AwardsBecause Texas emerged from the western fr...

Reducere. From an early age, Chef Ad n Medrano understood the power of cooking to enthrall, to grant artistic agency, and to solidify identity as well as suc...

Reducere. For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and recor...

Reducere. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women ...

Provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews wi...

DescriptionIn 1830 census takers trudged door to door in San Antonio de Bexar and Nacogdoches gathering census data on the residents. Either they g...

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and...

The Islamic State movement (ISIS/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian R...

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

Reducere. In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to creat...

Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nati...

Reducere. The decade 1910-1920 was the bloodiest in the controversial history of one of the most famous law enforcement agencies in the world--the Texas Rang...

The book is semi-autobigraphical and reflects on a myriad of memories darting back to childhood. Now, at the age of 70 the author looks back at acc...

DescriptionHispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions in this southwestern region during the fi...

Reducere. To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlook...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lucy M. GarzaThis delightful cookbook is straight from the cocina of a South Texas traditional Mexican home. Don't expect t...

Reducere. Tumbleweed Smith loves to bring the sounds and stories to radio and newspaper audiences across Texas. "Texas Highways" magazine says he has probabl...

Reducere. The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was th...

DescriptionRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on wh...