Mythic Galveston : reinventing America's third coast / Susan Wiley Hardwick.

Main entry:

Hardwick, Susan Wiley.

Title & Author:

Mythic Galveston : reinventing America's third coast / Susan Wiley Hardwick.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Description:

xii, 175 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.
Early Visitors and Settlers -- Birth of a Global City -- Rise of the Elite -- After the Storm: Reinventing an Island Environment -- The End of Immigration: The Galveston Movement -- The Reinvention of People and Place.

Summary:

Despite its appeal as a natural harbor, Galveston, Texas, is located on a small Gulf Coast barrier island that makes it ill-suited for dense urban development. Early American and European settlers envisioned Galveston harbor as a place with tremendous economic potential, appropriate for urban expansion. In Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast, Susan Wiley Hardwick examines Galveston's rapid rise and the myth created by immigrants and boosters to promote the vision of an abundant island with a highly temperate, even tropical, climate, ideal for settlement. Hardwick's historical analysis focuses on immigrant settlement patterns and the important contributions to Galveston's evolving sense of place made by diverse ethnic and racial groups.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801868874 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801868870 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Human geography Texas Galveston.
Regionalism Texas History.
Régionalisme Texas Histoire.
Ethnic relations.
Human geography.
Regionalism.
Social conditions
Galveston (Tex.) History.
Galveston (Tex.) Social conditions.
Galveston (Tex.) Ethnic relations.
Texas.
Texas Galveston.
Human geography United States Texas Galveston 1840-2000.
Regionalism United States Texas Galveston 1840-2000.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221500
Call No.: F394.G2 H3 2002
Status: Available

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