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Urban Texas : politics and development

Title
Urban Texas : politics and development / edited by Char Miller and Heywood Sanders.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [1990], ©1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Miller, Char.
  • Sanders, Heywood T., 1948-
Description
xv, 208 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 8
Uniform Title
Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 8.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The rise of urban Texas / Char Miller and David R. Johnson -- Frugal and sparing: interest groups, politics, and city building in San Antonio, 1870-85 / David R. Johnson -- Boss Tweed and V.O. Key in Texas / Amy Bridges -- Woman, religion, and reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 / Elizabeth Hayes Turner -- The emergence of a Black neighborhood: Houston's Fourth Ward, 1865-1915 / Cary D. Wintz -- Olmos Park and the creation of a suburban bastion, 1927-39 / Char Miller and Heywood T. Sanders -- Protecting community and property values: civic clubs in Houston, 1909-70 / Robert Fisher -- Dallas in the 1940s: the challenges and opportunities of defense mobilization / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Building a new urban infrastructure: the creation of postwar San Antonio / Heywood T. Sanders.
ISBN
0890963975 (alk. paper)
LCCN
89033948
OCLC
  • 19742066
  • ocm19742066
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries