Geography of Texas

Geography of Texas
Author: José Luis Quezada
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 150818660X

Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country's most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas's geography contributed to settling the state. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images.

Geography of Texas

Geography of Texas
Author: Erik Prout
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780757548659

The Shape of Texas

The Shape of Texas
Author: Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780890966648

Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.

Texas

Texas
Author: Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1984-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN:

Imperial Texas

Imperial Texas
Author: D.W. Meinig
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2010-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 029278628X

A “unique and fascinating” look at the various peoples of the Lone Star state from colonial times to the 1960s, illustrated with eighteen maps(American West). 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. In addition, numerous illustrations and maps are included, providing impressions of the populations and migrations that helped shape Texas’s history and culture. “Geography has produced a few scholars who roam more freely in the world of ideas to produce studies of penetration and insight. Meinig is one of these men, and Imperial Texas is such a study.” —Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Geography of Texas

Geography of Texas
Author: José Luis Quezada
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508186782

Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country's most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas's geography contributed to settling the state. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images.

Texas Geography

Texas Geography
Author: Michael Rajczak
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1477745335

Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country’s most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas’s geography contributed to settling the state. It also discusses its influence on ways of life in both the past and present. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images. Readers have additional opportunities to learn about the state’s wonderful wilderness through visually appealing graphic organizers, informative sidebars, and more.