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Imperial Texas: An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography [Paperback] Meinig, DW

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 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 After examining the historical framework, he then presents detailed analyses of the major regions of modem Texas and an overall characterization of the state and its people He concludes that, although Texas has never been the empire that it has sometimes been called, nevertheless Texas is something more than just onefourteenth of the American area, onetwentieth of the American people, and onefiftieth of the American union