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Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series)
Andrés Tijerina
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Description for Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series)
Paperback. Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. This book describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, and networks of communication. Series: The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 28 line drawings, map, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. In ""Tejano Empire"", historian Andres Tijerina describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, networks of communication, Catholic religion, and a material culture well adapted to the conditions of the region. After the introduction's historical overview of the region, the chapters address specific elements of the lives people led in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas: work ways and tools, housing and ranch layouts, family ... Read more
Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. In ""Tejano Empire"", historian Andres Tijerina describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, networks of communication, Catholic religion, and a material culture well adapted to the conditions of the region. After the introduction's historical overview of the region, the chapters address specific elements of the lives people led in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas: work ways and tools, housing and ranch layouts, family ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781603440516
SKU
V9781603440516
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About Andrés Tijerina
ANDRES TIJERINA is an associate professor of history at Austin Community College. He is author of the prize-winning Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, also published by Texas A&M University Press.
Reviews for Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series)
The scope and depth of Tijerina's research is breathtaking and the detail in which he passes his findings to us is exhaustive.... Tejano Empire is a long-needed corrective and valuable addition to the historical record of Texas. It's sure to become a standard reference on Hispanic culture in the state. - Dallas Morning News