Experiments in Rethinking History

Experiments in Rethinking History
Author: Alun Munslow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134418019

History is a narrative discourse, full of unfinished stories. This collection of innovative and experimental pieces of historical writing shows there are fascinating and important new ways of thinking and writing about the past.

102 Monitor

102 Monitor
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1980
Genre: Administrative agencies
ISBN:

Newcomer's Handbook Neighborhood Guide

Newcomer's Handbook Neighborhood Guide
Author: YuShan Chan
Publisher: First Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0912301708

This new book, first in our Newcomer?s Handbook Neighborhood Guide series, focuses on the neighborhoods within Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin, as well as on all the surrounding suburban communities. It provides detailed information about the types of housing and recreational opportunities found in each community, the character of each area, and helpful data on post offices, police departments, hospitals, libraries, schools, public transportation, and community publications and resources. Part of the Newcomer?s Handbook series, called ?invaluable? and ?highly recommended? by Library Journal.

Redefining the Immigrant South

Redefining the Immigrant South
Author: Uzma Quraishi
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469655209

In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with the recently partitioned states of India and Pakistan. U.S. operations in these two countries became the second- and fourth-largest in the world, creating migration links that resulted in the emergence of American universities, such as the University of Houston, as immigration hubs for the highly selective, student-led South Asian migration stream starting in the 1950s. By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century, arguing that South Asian immigrants appealed to class conformity and endorsed the model minority myth to navigate the complexities of a shifting Sunbelt South. By examining Indian and Pakistani immigration to a major city transitioning out of Jim Crow, Quraishi reframes our understanding of twentieth-century migration, the changing character of the South, and the tangled politics of race, class, and ethnicity in the United States.

EIS Cumulative

EIS Cumulative
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1981
Genre: Environmental impact statements
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Sugar Land

Sugar Land
Author: The City of Sugar Land
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-11-29
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439639655

Sugar Lands earliest settlers arrived in the 1820s with Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas. Originally named Oakland Plantation, the area was planted with cotton, corn, and sugar cane, and by 1843, it had its own sugar mill. Benjamin Franklin Terry, famous for leading Terrys Texas Rangers, and William Jefferson Kyle purchased the plantation in 1852 and were the first to name it Sugar Land. Col. Edward H. Cunningham, a Confederate veteran, later bought the property and built the first sugar refinery as well as a railroad to transport cane from nearby plantations. Under his ownership, a fledgling town emerged that included a store, post office, paper mill, acid plant, meat market, boardinghouse, and depot. The town, refinery, and surrounding 12,500 acres were acquired by Isaac H. Kempner and William T. Eldridge in 1908. Their vision resulted in Imperial Sugar, a thriving business and company town.

Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire

Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire
Author: Marie Theresa Hernández
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 1603443878

From San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers, the author pieces together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her heritage. She also provides visual images to spur the reader's imagination and anchor the narrative in historical reality.