Hardwick, Susan Wiley.

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

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

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

Creating the North American landscape

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.

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

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.

History.

Creating the North American landscape.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 221500
Cote: F394.G2 H3 2002
Statut: Disponible