The City in Texas

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  • The City in Texas Book Detail

  • Author : David G. McComb
  • Release Date : 2015-02-15
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 353
  • ISBN 13 : 0292767463
  • File Size : 35,35 MB

The City in Texas by David G. McComb PDF Summary

Book Description: "This book is the first history of cities in Texas, covering the earliest days of Spanish-Mexican towns, the Republic era to about 1940, and metropolitan Texas to the present. Not only is this book a first for Texas, but there seem to be no equivalent books for any other states, so the author has developed new concepts like 'the first road frontier' and the 'rupture' caused by the railroads. McComb emphasizes how railroads and related innovations such as the telegraph and the clock facilitated in urban development"--Provided by publisher.

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